AMENDING Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

amending

verb

present participle of amend

as in improving

to make better trying to amend the situation of the striking workers by supplying them with minimal food supplies

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as in correcting

to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from the Bill of Rights was adopted in an effort to amend a constitution that seemed to many to be deficient in guaranteeing individual rights

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as in reforming

to change one's behavior or character for the better the judge had heard the defendant promise before that he would amend

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Recent Examples of amending Results will direct you on the best method for amending soil, if needed. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 June 2026 That’s what’s important, so just amending the contract doesn’t work for me. — Michael Praats, Charlotte Observer, 4 July 2026 Courts have held that taxpayers who themselves file fraudulent returns cannot erase fraud by later amending their returns. — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Critics argue the proposal would create two different sets of rules for amending the same constitution. — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 24 June 2026 Michelle Ford, a soil scientist and wildlife biologist who owns EcoMaps, said Silverman over the past two months had addressed her concerns about wetlands protection by amending plans. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026 His party failed to win a supermajority, barring him from amending the constitution to give up Armenia’s claims to the Nagorno-Karabakh region, a central demand of Azerbaijan as a precondition for a lasting peace deal. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2026 Recently, the Illinois Register proposed amending the administrative code to update the definitions of the various alcohol categories solely by their production process — not their alcohol content. — Adam Hoffer, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026 The Republican National Committee began laying the groundwork earlier this year, voting at its winter meeting in January to make such an event possible by amending procedures centered around quadrennial presidential nominating conventions. — ABC News, 30 June 2026

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Pogačar is only improving as a rider, a scary proposition for man with his extraordinary palmares.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 July 2026
Higgins also says that improving resilience will mean changing the city’s building code to allow innovative new technology.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

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In my view, that is especially unfortunate because at the state level, there is bipartisan appetite to address ongoing health insurance barriers, such as by reforming prior authorization.

— Miranda Yaver, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
As the years pass, the task of reforming Social Security becomes a greater and greater challenge, the Urban Institute said.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 July 2026

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This approach is crucial for mitigating downsides and enhancing the benefits of AI for societal mental well-being.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
In addition to its instant, complexion-enhancing tint, the formula contains skin care ingredients lauded for their smoothing, quenching properties.

— Sophie Wirt, InStyle, 30 June 2026

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Once markets stop pricing free cash flow and start pricing a president’s next move, the bubble stops behaving like a discrete event with a beginning and an end, and starts behaving like a permanent condition.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 July 2026
Without clear visibility into how AI systems are behaving, organizations risk creating environments where costs get out of control and accountability disappears.

— Shane Buckley, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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Ahead, design experts share the five most glaring living room flaws, plus advice for remedying them.

— Madeline Bilis, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026
Starmer is historically unpopular in Britain after a series of scandals and policy missteps, with critics accusing him of lacking a political vision for remedying the country’s stagnant post-Brexit economy.

— Alexander Smith, NBC news, 19 June 2026

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