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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

I guess I even improved upon her lie.

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




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