innovate
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They say the decision is sort of to make space to innovate the live show and incorporate new things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Their efforts to innovate are partly a bid to satisfy ever tightening regulation around commercial recycling, and rising fines for those who fall foul.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
But “had we hired junior bankers day one, we would not have been forced to innovate on the process.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
He tells the BBC the sports industry needs to innovate because it is "competing with any other live experience - going to the museum, going to the theatre, going to the cinema".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
It is a more difficult thing than is commonly supposed, to make two great nations, each of which is disposed to innovate, speak the same language with precise uniformity.
From Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper
A Nike spokeswoman said that more diverse interests in China plays to Nike’s strengths as a company that innovates across sporting categories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
From August 2025: Apple no longer innovates — it waits.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026
Besson innovates with a subplot about Dracul’s foray into the world of perfume as he develops an intoxicating fragrance in Florence using French lavender, testing the potion on the pre-Revolution socialites in towering white-powdered wigs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
“Industry innovates and over-complies,” Duffy said, citing a 1970s EPA rule that required power plants to use sulfur dioxide scrubbers.
From Washington Times ● May 11, 2023
But there is no certainty beforehand; and if he fails, he expects blame not because he innovates, but because he has failed by innovating.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
Cesena, like most Italian clubs, rent their stadium and training facilities from the local authority, but Cole has innovated where he can.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
Social media platforms innovated new ways to keep users scrolling.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
“They, quote-unquote, innovated by taking what others have created and using it to build their own product,” Muller said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Apple has gotten some flak from critics on Wall Street who say the company hasn’t innovated enough in its smartphone business.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
Tristan und Isolde is an out-and-out masterpiece, with sweeping, yearning themes, deserving of its place in music’s pantheon, whatever it may or may not have innovated.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Currie said the company was "broadening and innovating our menu in line with changing tastes and trends".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Never mind that countless PBS documentaries have had no trouble realistically depicting revolutionary-era America without AI; Netflix is innovating.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Let’s stop innovating, let’s stop trying to break the mold on them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Throughout its history, Apple has done more innovating than inventing, and that’s the case here: The concept of conversational AI isn’t new—but this implementation certainly will be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The agitation began in 1761, and by the innovating ideas which it flung abroad it is as important as the Declaration itself, or the great constitutional debate.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
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