improved upon

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

Three years later, Quesada improved upon the winning formula by actually being in the same room as his collaborators — the first album was made in isolation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Israel has also improved upon the F-35s, adding its own upgrades and capabilities and learning lessons from its combat use that it has shared with the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

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