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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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But it was further pioneering technology, involving the extraction of DNA from human bones, that eventually matched Karen to her parents and completed the picture, revealing her identity for the first time.

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BlackBerry BB 2.31%increase; green up pointing triangle is counting on its automotive software business to power a turnaround of the onetime smartphone pioneer.

David Hirsh, author of “Contemporary Left Antisemitism,” says that despite the absence of violence against Jews in Britain before last week, the country has always been “a pioneer in ‘anti-Zionist’ antisemitism.”

Brown became one of the nation’s pioneering experts on the disorder, helping to shape its understanding, both in the public and medical communities.

“Sèvres Extraordinaire!” approaches its subject—pioneering, astonishing ceramic confections that are neither purely functional nor purely decorative but sui generis art, or “sculpture”—in the broadest sense.

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

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