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improved upon

ADJECTIVE
outdone
Synonyms


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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

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

From Salon Aug. 15, 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

There was nothing about him that could be improved upon.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer




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