pioneering
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Skating last after leading the short program, just as he did in Milan, Malinin landed five high-scoring quadruple jumps but not his pioneering quad axel, a jump he didn’t attempt at the Olympics.
From Los Angeles Times
At the time, Joseph Lister’s pioneering antisepsis work in Britain was known to American doctors.
"Port Talbot will be the forefront of a pioneering, new, clean energy industry," said a UK government spokesperson.
From BBC
Although Babbage's design was never fully realised, her contributions to the project led to her being credited as pioneering a very early kind of computer programming.
From BBC
Although she had already received a good deal of acclaim, O’Keeffe had begun to feel oppressed by her life in New York with her husband, the pioneering photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz.
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