pioneer
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Launched in 2009, the show was a pioneer of the long-form video-podcast format, with Rogan hosting fellow comedians, Hollywood A-listers, politicians, scientists and authors for wide-ranging conversations sometimes running over three hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The 86-year-old's death was announced on Monday by his second wife Lori Bakker, who described him as "a pioneer of Christian television".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
"The first impression was, well, I thought it was completely irrelevant," says Diamos, a pioneer in harnessing Nvidia's powerful GPU chips for AI.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Fellow broadcaster and money saving expert Martin Lewis called Dame Esther an "inspiration" and a "pioneer" whose "impact and memory will long continue to shine".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Normal” for , her were long, floor-brushing pioneer dresses and skirts.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
Chinese artificial-intelligence startups are rapidly closing the capability gap with U.S. pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
“In the late sixties, early seventies, I don’t think there was anyplace else that was exactly like Michigan,” Mike Alexander, one of the pioneers of Michigan’s computing system, said.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The advanced method is known as ancestral sequence reconstruction, which was pioneered by Joseph Thornton, a former UO scientist whose old laboratory space is now occupied by Barber's group.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
But remember that before Oppenheimer tossed us into the nuclear age, he pioneered modern theoretical physics in the United States.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Founded as Ulster Plant Ltd in 1966, Powerscreen pioneered the concept of mobile screening.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The theft-prone models lack a critical safeguard called an engine immobilizer pioneered in the mid-1980s, when more than 60,000 cars a year were stolen in Los Angeles alone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Techniques the doctors had pioneered on me would later be used to help hundreds of other patients around Australia and the world.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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"This is the pioneering study showing that polyethylene can contribute to fatty liver disease and the use of spatial transcriptomics has determined exactly where the damage has happened within the liver," Joshi said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said she had been a "pioneering defence attorney for anti-apartheid activists" who had worked to "uphold human dignity and bring hope in South Africa and to peoples globally".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Another name often cited among commentators is Taiwanese-American biochemist Chi-Huey Wong for pioneering synthesis methods for complex carbohydrates and glycoproteins.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Koch isn’t interviewed, but Mazzio sits with team members, rivals and the now-83 Conner who bring to life the skill and tenacity of the pioneering team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
But I sometimes imagine that he merely slipped during a courageous and pioneering venture in observational geophysics.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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