pioneer
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Colleagues paid tribute to a "pioneer, a researcher, an inventor" who made "anatomy accessible to the general public", but critics have accused him of voyeurism and profiting commercially from death.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The study builds on more than 20 years of research led by Cohen, who helped pioneer the discovery of peptides produced by mitochondria.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
The Taylor family is credited with helping to pioneer numerous innovations, from bagged salads to the U.S. industry’s first automated harvesters for romaine lettuce, cabbage and celery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Don Iwerks, an Academy Award-winning special effects pioneer whose innovations transformed film and Disney theme parks, died peacefully Thursday at the age of 96, the Walt Disney Co. announced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
In pioneer days there was said to be a boiling spring around here.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Since then, El Malilla has expanded the scope of reggaeton Mexa following collaborations with Puerto Rican pioneers such as Jowell y Randy and Colombian superstar J Balvin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Throughout the match, India's players repeatedly paid tribute to the pioneers who had laid the foundations of women's cricket in the country, insisting that this moment belonged to them too.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Developed in the early 1900s by pioneers including Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger, it has become one of the most successful scientific theories ever created.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
When the Minions land in Tinseltown, Coffin packs in homages to these pioneers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Ploetz and Poll looked to British and American eugenicists such as Galton, Priddy, and Davenport as pioneers of this new “science.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The site was first established in 1945 and pioneered radio astronomy and the study of galaxies beyond our own.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Clint really pioneered in that election the idea of running competing ballot measures,” Ross said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
But Ukraine has pioneered innovations that are tilting the playing field.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
The beating heart of jazz, a genre pioneered by African-Americans, shifted from New Orleans to New York City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
He believed the Rad Lab was destined to face inevitable decline as physics progressed and competitive laboratories emerged—many of them built on the model Lawrence had pioneered.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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For Jutta Ambrositsch, a pioneering figure among the new wave of Viennese winemakers, "the major problem is insensitive and careless real estate development in the 'heurigen areas'".
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Completed in 1902, the building was an architectural marvel with a pioneering steel-frame construction making it one of the city's first skyscrapers.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
He has turned Regeneron into one of the world’s most valuable drug companies, with a market cap of roughly $70 billion, by repeatedly pioneering technologies that opened up entirely new classes of blockbuster drugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The pioneering technology allowed audiences to experience a panoramic view of the film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Her mannerisms are what you’d imagine in a pioneering farmer’s wife.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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