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pioneer

[pahy-uh-neer] / ˌpaɪ əˈnɪər /






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Sharon Osbourne, the widow of heavy metal pioneer Ozzy, has used the first anniversary of his death to tell fans to remember him by playing music "really loud".

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Fast-spreading pioneer and weeding ferns created extensive fern savannahs.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

On the Latin side, I would love to collaborate with Nsqk, De La Ghetto, Ñengo Flow or a reggaeton pioneer like DJ Blass.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 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 debate behind the scenes had focused on Lawrence’s role as the quintessential pioneer of Big Science.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

The actor and director deserves to be remembered alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of Hollywood’s comedy pioneers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 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

The foundations of quantum mechanics were built by pioneers including Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

First came the stumps of the houses that had once contained the dreams of pioneers, and then the town proper in a line of ruined structures.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Ranch dressing was pioneered in Alaska, popularized on a dude ranch in California and perfected by food scientists before it spread all over the nation and on every food imaginable.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

But Ukraine has pioneered innovations that are tilting the playing field.

From Slate Jul. 10, 2026

Researchers at MIT and Stanford had pioneered work on carbon capture and enhanced oil recovery.

From Salon Jun. 26, 2026

The practice was pioneered by the Recording Industry Assn. of America, when the industry feared that unauthorized downloading of music through programs such as Napster threatened its very existence.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

In the years immediately before the founding of the Royal Society two new sets of arguments for Christian faith were pioneered.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The pioneering technology allowed audiences to experience a panoramic view of the film.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

The idea that gravity and thermodynamics are deeply linked dates back to the pioneering work of Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking in the 1970s.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

"For them, backtracking would mean losing their pioneering advantage."

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

That has been the practice since the pioneering work of Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal more than a century ago.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

The organization opposed black candidates for public office whom they deemed too accommodationist and its members walked alongside the pioneering black students integrating Durham’s public schools.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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