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The word "alleviate" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used as a verb meaning to reduce or take away the intensity or severity of something, such as pain, worry, or hardship. Example sentence: Exercising regularly can help alleviate stress.
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As Leah Oatway, senior communications officer at Action Against Hunger, says: "We need the media, in its fourth estate role, to share messages on important issues or crises that are under-reported and require international support, to encourage world leaders to make positive commitments to alleviate poverty, and to hold them accountable for those commitments".
For instance, the budgetary savings could be used to reduce other distorting taxes or to alleviate poverty in a more targeted and efficient way".
To try to alleviate widespread poverty from five years of savage austerity, Varoufakis said the government wanted to introduce a smart card scheme which bearers would use for health insurance but which would also include food stamps worth €100 a month for up to 300,000 families.
Turning its second club competition back into a straight knockout would probably help alleviate the boredom and ennui.
"It was nice to alleviate their fears and say that it looked like it was the end of the affair," he said.
The Treasury said this would identify what needed to be done to alleviate long-running weaknesses in areas such as transport, broadband, planning, skills, ownership, childcare, red-tape, science and innovation.
"Thank you for having opened your borders and let's see what we can do about the whole situation to try to alleviate it and facilitate it," he said.
This is a common debating point from fossil fuel advocates – that poverty stricken countries need coal, oil and gas to become wealthy (as if coal, oil and gas have only just become available to alleviate the developing world's ills).
In his appearance at hospital, Fahmy said Greste and Mohamed were in good spirits and were now allowed to read newspapers, which helped to alleviate the boredom of prison.
Both your editorial (6 November) and Simon Jenkins (Opinion, 7 November) assert that any compensation received would alleviate the burden on the council and be to their benefit.
However he would like to see charities get smarter about how they use their reserves and explore collaborative models of delivery – such as consortia or working as part of a supply chain – to alleviate some of the concerns around such contracts.
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