pioneer
Example Sentences
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The good news for the Johns Hopkins team: The metal-organic frameworks they’ve pioneered are potentially so precise that future microchips made of graphene or other exotic materials might be patterned using them.
He wanted to know if he should join the masses of pioneers settling the “wilds of the West” in Michigan.
From Literature
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US President Thomas Jefferson, revolutionist Francis Lewis and Griffith Jenkin Griffith, "one of the true pioneers of Los Angeles", are also given an honourable mention by Rhys thanks to their Welsh ancestry.
From BBC
His father came to the United States from Mexico illegally then became a pioneering Mexican restaurateur in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times
Google itself was a pioneer in the electricity market, creating contracts that allowed it to buy renewable power in long-term deals.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.