Improve
Rule
Rule verb - To exercise authority or power over.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Max Havelaar, Eduard Douwes Dekker's famous account of his (failed) struggle to improve the lot of the Javanese under Dutch colonial rule.
Source: Roman à Clef -
According to the GM's house rule, characters can only spend experience to improve skills they used.
Source: When All You Have Is a Hammer - The beginning of the game is set in a crapsack world where corporations and conspiracies rule the world and it looks like nothing can improve it.
Source: Deus Ex Machina / Video Games
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