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improved upon

ADJECTIVE
outdone
Synonyms


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Still, cloned horses can reproduce normally, so bloodlines that would have been lost can be reintroduced and improved upon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

I believe this salad cannot be improved upon as long as you start with a great watermelon.

From Salon • Aug. 15, 2024

Lining up with a personal best of 3:30.59, the 23-year-old Hocker improved upon it by almost three seconds as leader Ingebrigtsen turned the screw in trademark fashion.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024

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

It had been expanded, improved upon, excavated and tunneled into by successive Masters of Stormhold, until the original mountain peak now raked the sky like the ornately carved tusk of some great, grey, granite beast.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman




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