improve on/upon
phrasal verb
improved on/upon; improving on/upon; improves on/upon
: to do better than (something previously done)
After months of study, I improved on my original score.
It'll be hard to improve upon the success they had last year.
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Plenty of firms from tech giants like Meta to scrappier startups such as Mistral and Hugging Face have been betting on open-source as a way to improve on the technology while also sharing important developments with the wider research community.
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Ryan Browne, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
Nintendo is playing it safe, and while more details are set to be revealed in a dedicated Nintendo Direct broadcast on April 2, there are undoubtedly areas where the upcoming console could improve on its predecessor.
—Matt Kamen, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2025
Apart from fourth-grade math, New York City schools failed to improve on any of the other tests — though averaged roughly the same scores as before the pandemic and in other large cities.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
In the 1980s, scientists found ways to improve on a game-changing production method called chemical vapor deposition.
—Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
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Ryan Browne, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
Nintendo is playing it safe, and while more details are set to be revealed in a dedicated Nintendo Direct broadcast on April 2, there are undoubtedly areas where the upcoming console could improve on its predecessor.
—Matt Kamen, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2025
Apart from fourth-grade math, New York City schools failed to improve on any of the other tests — though averaged roughly the same scores as before the pandemic and in other large cities.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
In the 1980s, scientists found ways to improve on a game-changing production method called chemical vapor deposition.
—Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Improve on/upon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/improve%20on%2Fupon. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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