go one better
Example Sentences
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He won at Torrey Pines in February and prepared assiduously for the Masters in an attempt to go one better than his 2025 play-off defeat by Rory McIlroy.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Sadowski-Synnott, who won big air bronze in Pyeongchang in 2018 and silver in Beijing, was looking to go one better at the Milan-Cortina Games.
From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026
"I am full of confidence and hopefully I can go one better this tournament. I have had a month off tournaments but still been putting the work in."
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
The Gunners lead title rivals Liverpool by one point after seven games as they seek to go one better after finishing third for three consecutive seasons.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
The most practised hand will not find it easy to "go one better than" Macaulay in a swingeing trope.
From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic
