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** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that the tomes that recorded Ezra's techniques were destroyed in the lead up to a dark age.
* [[The Dresden Files]] Explicitly applies this to necromancy. The older the corpse being re-animated, the more powerful the result. Harry uses this rule to get around the fact that non-human zombies are less powerful than ones made from humans by re-animating a corpse several orders of magnitude older than any possible human corpse. {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Zombie]] [[HSQ|T-rex]]}}.
* [[David Brin]] did a wacky variant in ''The Practice Effect'': on a certain colony planet, it'd somehow been arranged so that the more an item was used — assuming it wasn't consumed or broken in a single use — the '''better''' it became at its function. "Practice Makes Perfect." An electromagnetic pistol that started out barely capable of "plinking" had, by the end of the book, been "practiced" into being capable of blasting through walls. Captives improvised a saw from a zipper, to cut their way out of prison; by the time they escaped, the zipper's plastic teeth had become ideally-shaped saw teeth — of '''diamond'''.
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