improved upon

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Mayo believed it was also likely these managers understood the risk that their investments could be the Labs’ undoing, as competitors used Bell Labs innovations and improved upon them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

"It's not that it wasn't good before, but we improved upon it," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

He, along with Yuan Zhang, another graduate student in Averitt's lab, improved upon a technique called terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024

Those crucial missing songs aside, were there aspects of the movie that you feel diminished, or perhaps improved upon, the original?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2023

Miss Genovese’s smile doesn’t reach her eyes; she seems offended by the notion that her own dress code could be improved upon, or that her operators would be less accomplished than the Hello Girls overseas.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse