improved upon

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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

After a stripped down “Good Luck Charlie” came a series of songs whose live production elements, on top of exemplifying Abrams’ growing sense of playfulness as a performer, vastly improved upon their studio versions.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 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