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pioneer

[pahy-uh-neer] / ˌpaɪ əˈnɪər /






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Meanwhile, AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li founded World Labs, external in San Francisco in 2023 to develop a new AI model.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Equinox was a pioneer in luxury fitness, turning the traditional gym into a social club where members pay a premium for status and amenities.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

That 1971 law declared wild horses and burros “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West” and made it illegal to harass, capture or kill them on public land.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

For much of its history, Microsoft was best known as the pioneer behind the Windows operating system and wildly popular Office software.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

“I felt like one of the pioneer woman, coming here. Besides—” She turned and looked at me, smiling at my incomprehension.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Developed in the early 1900s by pioneers including Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger, it has become one of the most successful scientific theories ever created.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

"There was no water, no electricity, no real housing; we were pioneers," he told AFP.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

It's regarded as a hotbed of innovation and resides in the shadow of some of the most influential Big Tech companies on the planet, including many pioneers in the AI field.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Whether by focusing on such hybrid players or by building a portfolio balancing pioneers and scalers, savvy tech investors always account for multiple likely scenarios.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

As a result these black pioneers stayed, some bought plots of land, established families and called Alexandra home, sweet home.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

But Ukraine has pioneered innovations that are tilting the playing field.

From Slate Jul. 10, 2026

Read: Palantir pioneered the hottest job in tech.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

That was the goal of Muhammad Yunus, a U.S.-trained economist, who pioneered the practice in Bangladesh during the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

By now the new science of bacteriology, pioneered by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, had convinced most public health officials that contaminated drinking water caused the spread of cholera and other bacterial diseases.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Disraeli wrote fiction throughout his political career, pioneering the social novel alongside Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Bitcoin, the pioneering cryptocurrency, is mired in a big drawdown, as are most of the other major coins.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

In turn that gave Musk — whether intentionally or coincidentally — bragging rights as a pioneering trillionaire.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

The volumes were once part of the personal library of pioneering Indian historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Aurangzeb's most influential biographer.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

The school was named after a pioneering doctor who also became the first female mayor elected in England.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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