Better
Better verb - To be greater, better, or stronger than.
Usage example: this year's profits should better last year's by a wide margin
Common collocations
| powers | better powers | tower powers |
Both words in one sentence
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Many councils have decided the best way to solve their housing problems is with the judicious use of high explosives, demolishing tower blocks and building better houses.
Source: Useful Notes / Council Estate -
It's the only way to achieve one of the better endings when Mary tries to kill Jennifer at the top of the clock tower, but is assaulted by a group of crows who cause her to fall to her death.
Source: Androcles' Lion -
Tempting Fate: Young Adrienne warns her mother that she and her father better not lock her in some tower once she turns sixteen.
Source: Comicbook / Princeless
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