pioneered
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The author, a musician and composer, illustrates how the artful blend of African rhythms and European melodies pioneered by Cuban players seeped, often undetected, into American music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Juan Atkins, the Detroit club music producer who pioneered techno as a genre, has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
He wants his legacy to be the one who "pioneered... the industrialisation of Africa", he told Nicolai Tangen, the head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, in a podcast earlier this year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
He was cast in Breaking Bad at 14, and told Channel 4 News in 2016 that the show "pioneered a lot of TV and writers to be more brave".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The psychologist Jonathan W. Schooler, who pioneered research on this effect, calls it verbal overshadowing.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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