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innovate

[in-uh-veyt] / ˈɪn əˌveɪt /


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As the largest stock market-listed ice cream company in the world, with a market capitalisation of around £8bn, it has the funds to innovate.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

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

Dynamism occurs when newcomers can innovate before lawyers—or regulators—arrive.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The company has continued to innovate with lenses that slow the progression of short-sightedness in children.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

But every man cannot distinguish betwixt pedantry and poetry: every man therefore is not fit to innovate.

From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer

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

Meta hasn’t been sitting idly by while OpenAI innovates.

From MarketWatch Oct. 13, 2025

The collective bargaining agreement, which extends the current CBA by four years, through 2030, “revolutionizes the game, raises standards, and innovates the business,” Berman added.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2024

In the end, however, Pope.L tends to borrow more than he innovates: the crawling, ingesting and meditating are couched in earlier actions and overlaid with social critique.

From New York Times Jan. 9, 2020

What but his faculty to brave, to suffer, to endure—the patience that resists firmly, and innovates slowly?

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

Against the country that had innovated the jogo bonito, Haaland’s performance was a masterpiece of straightforward brutality.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

“It’s possible that we’ve innovated with plants under more scrutiny than any other company ever,” he added.

From MarketWatch May 6, 2026

The authorities innovated too to try to boost uptake.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

Social media platforms innovated new ways to keep users scrolling.

From Salon Feb. 7, 2026

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

Currie said the company was "broadening and innovating our menu in line with changing tastes and trends".

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Martin and Lewis created a novus ordo seclorum, in its way innovating like America’s founders, spawning a new comedic order of the ages.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

As someone who is perennially image-conscious, constantly innovating, and occasionally rash, it’s not surprising that an artist like Madonna would incorporate new technology into her art.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

Musk has a history of moving into what he sees as static industries that aren’t innovating.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The opinions of Socrates and Plato on the soul as something which always existed and whose after life is affected by its experiences here, struck the Athenians as novel and innovating.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton




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