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

This latest version improved on graphics quality, meaning scenes created with it had more photorealism than before. — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026

Recommended by Our Editors Both Samsung and Google claim that night photography has improved on their respective foldables. — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 16 Aug. 2026

The second rebuild came amid rapidly improving on-field fortunes in the 1990s. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Atlanta Public Schools improved on this year’s math, social studies and science exams at a rate that outpaced the state’s improvement benchmarks. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for improve on

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