pioneering
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Scientists behind a pioneering project to turn human wee into plant fertiliser are hoping to grow their first forest.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
At the time, Joseph Lister’s pioneering antisepsis work in Britain was known to American doctors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Unicharm is testing the scheme in two pioneering southern Japanese municipalities, Shibushi and Osaki, which recycle 80 percent of household waste -- four times the Japanese average.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
And yet, for all his decades of celebrity, Norris will likely be best remembered as a pioneering internet meme.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
What the pioneering television researchers of the 1960s and 1970s — in particular, Daniel Anderson at the University of Massachusetts — began to realize, however, is that this isn’t how preschoolers watch TV at all.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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