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innovate

[in-uh-vayt] / ˈɪn əˌveɪt /


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When malware spreads across the internet, the response isn’t to slow technology, but to innovate faster, creating solutions that are technologically superior to the malicious software.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Lance Hastings, chief executive of the California Manufacturers & Technology Assn., said in a statement Friday that the governor’s veto protects “the ability of manufacturers to innovate and create here in California.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

“We are a business that is trying to innovate and modernize the retail experience.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

I admit that it was quite unintentional; I am not so foolish as to innovate like that, and exchange the regular formulae.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler

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

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

“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

But when the law required greater car safety, companies innovated to create technologies to make cars safer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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

Further, American growers have not just decreased imports and increased their exports over the years, they’ve also innovated on the plant itself.

From Salon ● May 6, 2026

The authorities innovated too to try to boost uptake.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 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

Both sides are attacking and defending communication signals on an unprecedented scale, innovating at pace, while the U.S. and other Western countries are working to catch up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The bad guys are always innovating and working around them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The key is to keep innovating, according to Bedford.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

“It is during this period that leading companies find ways to differentiate themselves by innovating, delivering new and superior solutions, and driving durable growth. This is where PayPal needs to focus.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Lysippus continued the academic traditions of Polyclitus, but he was far bolder in his choice of subjects and more innovating in style.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various




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