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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

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

From BBC Feb. 4, 2026

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

From Salon Aug. 15, 2024

Along the way, the team said it improved upon preexisting equations that assumed both bodies were equally dense and ignored the secondary body's mass.

From Science Daily May 2, 2024

I guess I even improved upon her lie.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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