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pioneer

[pahy-uh-neer] / ˌpaɪ əˈnɪər /






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Sam Altman hoped Sora would turn OpenAI into a creative pioneer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

And belying urban legends, there was no link to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve or the death of computing pioneer Alan Turing.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

But somehow it still makes sense coming from alt-comedy pioneer David Cross, who isn’t just complaining; he’s finding his own route to making specials feel special again.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Most of the fossil material was originally collected in 1986 by Dr. Mary Dawson, Curator Emeritus at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a pioneer in Arctic paleontology.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

So I think of Zora Khyber as an early pioneer, a sort of John the Baptist crying in the wilderness.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides