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pioneer

Definition for pioneer

adjective as in early, first

noun as in person who finds a new place, founds something

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Marvin Glass, whose firm’s origins date to the early 1940s, pioneered the idea of forming independent design studios to invent toys that could be licensed to toy manufacturers.

A pioneering surgeon who carried out the first successful heart transplant in the UK has died aged 93.

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District Judge Amit Mehta had declared Google a “monopolist,” leaving investors to wonder if the internet search pioneer would be broken up.

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He also brought the efficiency and standardization of factory production to sales, helping to pioneer and popularize many practices that are still common.

But one farmer in the south of Scotland is pioneering an unconventional method of commercial dairy farming - keeping cow and calf together for about six months.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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