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get better

Idioms  

  1. Improve; recover one's health. For example, I just started studying Japanese, and I hope to get better soon, or The doctor said I could expect to get better within a couple of days. Also see get well.

Example Sentences

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"By including that information, we expect to get better cosmological results and be closer to resolving the Hubble tension."

From Science Daily

In a recent interview, Eric Nam said Kish was “fearless” in her mission to get better food on set.

From Salon

If every event is met with automatic suspicion and conspiracy theory, we’ll spend all our time debunking nonsense, and nothing will ever get better.

From Slate

“Can you help her? Will she get better?”

From Literature

I spooned the food into her mouth, willing her to get better.

From Literature

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