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revolutionize

[rev-uh-loo-shuh-nahyz] / ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃəˌnaɪz /


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The technology’s supporters say AI will revolutionize industries and drive a productivity boom that will power growth for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Humanoid robots have the potential to revolutionize life as we know it, and robotics startups across the globe are trying to bring them to market as soon as possible.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

That all makes a whole lot of sense when you remember that Netflix stumbled into the moviemaking business by nature of trying to revolutionize the movie-renting business.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The authors enthused that the partnership "showcased how innovative approaches, even involving unconventional collaborators, can revolutionize oceanographic research."

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

But it would also revolutionize the ordinary person’s understanding of the laws that govern the universe.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Maybe that’s the real magic of a tool like this: not that it revolutionizes your cooking, but that it makes the most ordinary meal feel new again.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025

The same model they used in Georgia revolutionizes presidential campaigning, with Rosalynn as Jimmy’s top surrogate.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2023

This breakthrough method revolutionizes the estimation of gradients or derivatives of functions, a crucial step in many computational tasks.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023

This is one of those Big Science Moments, the kind that revolutionizes a field and galvanizes the public.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2022

The suggestion which comes from a sweet, beautiful, charming character is contagious and sometimes revolutionizes a whole neighborhood.

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

With all the changes from AI, "the computer has to be revolutionized," Huang said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Schick revolutionized shaving with injector razors and multiblades in a single cartridge, slugging it out in the marketplace for decades with rival shaving giant Gillette.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

"GLP-1-based medications have revolutionized the therapy of obesity. We now have a very effective pharmacotherapy for achieving significant weight loss," Petersen says.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

“Toy Story” revolutionized the movie business as the first computer-animated feature film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

To make matters worse, dramatic technological changes revolutionized the workplace—changes that eliminated many of the jobs that less skilled workers once relied upon for their survival.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

For the home cooks: OXO is best known for revolutionizing the salad spinner, but it has also redesigned the garlic press, the can opener, the vegetable peeler … the list goes on.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

ChatGPT-style AI is revolutionizing the world of high-level math by quickly solving famous, long-unsolved problems that stumped experts for decades.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Ted Turner created CNN in 1980, revolutionizing the way America, and the world, got their news, and then went on to become one of the most prominent business leaders and philanthropists of his era.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

"For all the talk about how AI is revolutionizing science, there are very few examples where something fundamentally new has been found directly by an AI system," Nemenman says.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026

But Bertillonage was already being displaced by a more efficient method of identification that was revolutionizing the world of scientific detection: fingerprinting.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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