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pioneer

[pahy-uh-neer] / ˌpaɪ əˈnɪər /






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He pursued his obsessions, becoming an expert on apocalyptic texts and a pioneer cataloger of medieval manuscripts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

She, like Pulido, grew up in the border area known as the Rio Grande Valley -- but her father was not a Tejano music pioneer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

"Going forward, we hope to clarify the mechanism by which pyruvate promotes triglyceride accumulation to pioneer the development of therapeutic drugs and establishment of preventive methods through dietary interventions," added Professor Harada.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

To save time and ingredients, Samuel and his head maltster, Job Goodhead, used a teapot to brew the first IPA and helped pioneer a new taste.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

And his shoes were something out of a social studies project on the pioneer days.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

The league ought to give these pioneers the recognition they deserve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

These new pioneers coax the landscape into fertile framing, helping to feed hungry populations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The grocer was founded in 1966 by Japanese immigrants Michio and Aveline Kushi — pioneers of the natural-foods macrobiotic movement who began selling imported organic goods out of their Boston home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Wing or centre, a wonderful finisher and a player whose innate talents were honed on those tough streets of his district - one that also produced fellow pioneers Roy Francis and Colin Dixon.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

The modern-day interpretation of the holiday was pioneered by the Eastside nonprofit Self Help Graphics & Art, which hosted its first Día de los Muertos public celebration in 1972.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Mourinho is a follower of tactical periodisation, a way of football thinking pioneered by Vitor Frade.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

He wants his legacy to be the one who "pioneered... the industrialisation of Africa", he told Nicolai Tangen, the head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, in a podcast earlier this year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Once upon a time, the “Yale Model,” pioneered by that university’s chief investment officer David Swensen, got great results this way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

That language was pioneered in English, where, for example, ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning during the seventeenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It forms part of a pioneering amphibian conservation project in Catalonia supported by the Barcelona Zoo Foundation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Sherrock has been a pioneering figure in darts since she became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship when she beat Ted Evetts in 2019.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

He also controls the pioneering electric car company Tesla.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

In 1959, Draper’s father was setting up a pioneering venture-capital firm—Draper, Gaither & Anderson, partly financed by the Rockefeller family—in Palo Alto, Calif., and persuaded his son to join that effort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

There was a real appeal in his noisy voice, as if Ginnie, by her answer, could save him from some particularly isolating form of pioneering.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger


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