The word "bettered" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of making something better or to compare something that is better than something else. For example, "Our school's performance has been bettered this year, compared to last year."
It was how she got to take her intimate photographs of the Beatles in their dressing room, never bettered by anyone: she melted into the background and they accepted her there and were glad to have her.
As a summary of the opposition's complete lack of answers in the velodrome, it could not be bettered.
Rich visual records exist of this production and Ratmansky says, "To my mind, this design hasn't been bettered.
Labor shaped the national consensus and bettered our nation.
That reflects a lot of antiquated technology in the space business, much of which can be bettered by the latest off-the-shelf equipment, says Will Marshall, Planet Labs' boss.
PEOPLE booking hotel rooms online do not like to worry about missing out on deals, so websites often promise that the rates they display will not be bettered elsewhere.
As the community bettered itself, the backgrounds and pastimes moved upmarket.
The Bible printed by Gutenberg around 1455, in that wonderful blackletter whose spacing of exquisitely planed type had never been bettered, had broken the hold of the church and opened the way to modern commerce.
Her verdict on Blairism in "The Cappuccino Years" has never been bettered: "It's a little bit of coffee and a bloody lot of froth .Ralph Goodchild London * Letters appear online only.
The sources of growth are still opaque; his descriptions of the innovative process have not often been bettered.
Every time he has returned from a long break, he has soon regained or even bettered his previous level.Given the misfortune of getting injured at all, Mr Nadal was lucky this time in regard to the timing of his absence.
