better place
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbetterandplace
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better
adjective
uk/ˈbet.ər/us/ˈbet̬.ɚ/
comparative of good: of a higher standard, or more suitable, pleasing, or effective than other things ...
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place
noun
uk/pleɪs/us/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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(Definition ofbetterandplacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofbetter place
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Parents expressed comfort in believing the child will be in abetterplaceafter dying.
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To managers and professionals his message is that if we can't say how we actually make our organization abetterplace, we're out!
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Classical music may be dead, but as you say to kids, it's in abetterplacenow.
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Nonetheless, since the world may be deemed abetterplacewithout this ogre and his wife, a form of happy ending is still preserved.
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We don't say 'dry your eyes there's nothing to cry about he's in abetterplace'.
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They involve an in-virtue-of justification of treatment that is claimed to make the world abetterplacethan its absence.
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Consider the commitment to making the world abetterplace.
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I would get them out from behind their curtains and working to make this abetterplace.
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Whatbetterplacefor a client to grieve than in a safe environment with nursing staff trained in mental health issues?
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Or: to make this planet abetterplaceto live in for ourselves, our children, our country, mankind?
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Since the last two syllables are adjacent to both the peak and the end, there is nobetterplacefor that lapse to go.
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Here our intuitions suggest that the world is abetterplaceif virtuous rather than vicious persons receive increased well-being.
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The expectation is that once educated, they will have abetterplacein society and a better future both for marriage and financial possibilities.
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Unfortunately, there are so many ways to make the world abetterplacethat it is not very difficult to meet this goal.
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He wanted to make whatever world he lived in abetterplace, whether it was in music education, media production or local politics.
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It seems like abetterplacethan most to engage intellectually and politically with all music, and that - for me - has always got to be the goal. 12.
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Many patients would not resist the idea that the world would be abetterplaceif they did not have to suffer and die from the disease.
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At the end of a study, researchers are almost always in a strategicallybetterplace-in view of what they now know-to reflect on where they need to go next.
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In particular, it allows us to say that other things being equal, the world is abetterplacewhen the virtuous get pleasure and the vicious pain than vice versa.
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There is nobetterplaceto learn information technology skills.
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