one-upping

He said they often spoke “candidly about sobriety, sharing stories and one-upping each other. We could laugh about it all, because if you’re still there to talk about it, that means you’re moving in a good direction.”

With Amazon One, the company may be most concerned with one-upping its competitors, Apple and Google, which already collect retina and fingerprint data from millions of device users.

There’s the tiniest glint of guilt in his eyes as his protégé replaces him, one-upping him with a shamelessness that we still haven’t seen the depths of.

“People were one-upping each other on the ‘perfect’ scale,” Mr. Cho said.

Anderson has a knack for somehow one-upping himself while simultaneously finding fresh twists on his ever-evolving aesthetic world, as if each new film is the most Wes Anderson a Wes Anderson film can ever be.