improve on

verb

variants or improve upon

improved on or improved upon; improving on or improving upon; improves on or improves upon

transitive verb

: to do better than

It's hard to improve on last year's record.

Examples of improve on in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The fastest way to improve on camera is to make the audience part of the conversation through live questions, reactions and polls. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

For eight decades, mathematicians were unable to significantly improve on the solution that Erdős came up with. — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2026

All things being equal, the Raptors would like to improve on their 46-win season, which earned them the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference. — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 26 June 2026

Subsequent models have improved on that last attribute. — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026

The team's play improved on Tuesday after Juan Quintero came off the bench to replace James Rodríguez, who joined Colombia greats Freddy Rincón and Carlos Valderrama with 10 World Cup appearances. — ABC News, 24 June 2026

As co-hosts of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the USMNT entered the tournament with home-field advantage and hopes of improving on its Round 16 exit in 2022. — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026

Over the years, inventors improved on the design with faster models (such as an iteration described in a 1930 Scientific American article). — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 18 June 2026

The document also calls on the state to improve on its 23rd place Workforce ranking and move into the top ten. — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 16 June 2026

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