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Chinese humanoid pioneer Unitree, whose backflipping robots wowed the world this year, made a much-anticipated market debut in Shanghai on Wednesday with a similarly impressive leap in share price of more than 600 percent.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

US Olympic champion track star Florence Griffith Joyner, known as Flo-Jo, is often regarded as a pioneer of competing with long, vibrant nails back in the 1980s.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Helmed by Barbara Burrell, Sky’s Gourmet Tacos helped pioneer a soulful approach to Mexican food that has since spread to Black-owned restaurants across Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

“The DSM is always catching up to the times,” said Carrie Goldberg, a plaintiff’s lawyer who helped pioneer the current style of social media litigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

In the United States the great pioneer of rocketry was Robert Hutchings Goddard, who was born in Massachusetts in 1882—the same year my dad was bom.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

When the show focuses on more recent art, it is capable of finding descendants of the pioneers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Known as 'vacuum birefringence', the phenomenon was predicted nearly 90 years ago by Werner Heisenberg, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

Delta and United have been among the pioneers of segmentation in economy, and they’ve also focused on attracting richer flyers.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

It said the site was also "the birthplace of future UK science pioneers", as it welcomed "more than 25,000 schoolchildren every year".

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Quivering with the uncertainty of pioneers, dreading that they might have been led astray by some minuscule miscalculation, they wrote a short note for publication and hastened to Lawrence’s house for his approval.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Following a playbook pioneered by private chefs and interior designers—some of the first types to break out across social media platforms—plumbers, contractors, pool guys and landscape designers have become Instagram- and TikTok-famous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

For the nonprofit, which pioneered the concept years ago, understanding the community need is vital and programming varies widely across its 19 school district partners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

KKR is benefiting in part because it was slower than competitors to sell private-credit funds to individuals through brokers and financial advisers, a strategy Blue Owl pioneered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Astronomers have claimed that the closure of Lovell and the e-MERLIN network will mean that Britain will fall behind in a field that was pioneered at Jodrell Bank.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Rao’s company has pioneered a work flow software program with a standardized format that makes the outsourcing of tax returns cheap and easy.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

In response, Arcadia officials this month began what they say is a pioneering effort to determine how to protect local municipalities from influence by foreign governments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

For a company that has owned a pioneering AI lab since 2014 and has proclaimed itself “AI-first” since 2016, Google seems to have squandered an early lead, experts say.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

"We've demonstrated that this is a vast, untapped source of historical information, and we want to continue this pioneering work."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Dean co-founded Google Brain, the company’s pioneering AI deep-learning research team, in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

My grandfather’s pioneering ascent to the ministry was met with many cheers but some threats as well.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore