If A, B are bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert space, then we prove that $$\begin{aligned} w(A)\le & {} \frac{1}{2}\left( \Vert A\Vert +\sqrt{r\left( |A||A^*|\right) }\right) ,\\ w(AB \pm BA)\le & {} 2\sqrt{2}\Vert B\Vert \sqrt{ w^2(A)-\frac{c^2(\mathfrak {R}(A))+c^2(\mathfrak {I}(A))}{2} }, \end{aligned}$$ where $$w(\cdot ),\left\| \cdot \right\| $$ , and $$r(\cdot )$$ are the numerical radius, the operator norm, the Crawford number, and the spectral radius respectively, and $$\mathfrak {R}(A)$$ , $$\mathfrak {I}(A)$$ are the real part, the imaginary part of A respectively. The inequalities obtained here generalize and improve on the existing well known inequalities.
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