pioneer
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Tapia Takaki has helped pioneer this experimental approach and has contributed to theoretical models in which gluons gather into localized areas of especially high density, sometimes referred to as "hot spots."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Journalist and feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem, who co-founded Ms. magazine and spent her life working toward a more equitable world for women and girls, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Regardless of Saturday's result, Taylor will be remembered as a pioneer who kicked open the door for women's boxing.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Ramírez was an unlikely pioneer of Palestinian radicalism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
As if by an act of providence, Ernest promptly came within the orbit of a genuinely free-thinking pioneer of advanced physics.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The grocer was founded in 1966 by Japanese immigrants Michio and Aveline Kushi — pioneers of the natural-foods macrobiotic movement who began selling imported organic goods out of their Boston home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Wing or centre, a wonderful finisher and a player whose innate talents were honed on those tough streets of his district - one that also produced fellow pioneers Roy Francis and Colin Dixon.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
And one day, pioneers hope to merge these two schools of artificial thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Known as 'vacuum birefringence', the phenomenon was predicted nearly 90 years ago by Werner Heisenberg, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
It’s one of the original cabins of the Westward Movement and, like the Iroquois Indians, the pioneers put furs down for floors, not boards.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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The researchers reached that conclusion using a technique they pioneered with Raman spectroscopy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Ukraine’s drone sector is among the world’s largest and most advanced, built on technologies the country pioneered in its war with Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
CAR-T therapy, short for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, was pioneered in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The company pioneered a formidable model that is hard to replicate, said Ken Pucker, a sustainable fashion expert at Tufts University.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
He had reduced private ownership of land, nationalized certain sectors of the economy, pioneered rapid industrialization, democratized education, and built a modem army.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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A pioneering urologist at the University of Chicago, Lyon worked with an estate attorney to divide his $1.2 million retirement account equally among his 36 grandchildren through separate trusts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Kojima, whose pioneering "Metal Gear" spy soldier franchise was a key element of the PlayStation's success since the 1990s, has been working on a new project, "Physint".
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
A critically endangered roloway monkey has given birth only months after a pioneering operation spared her from having her foot amputated.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Success in further, larger trials would give support to the AI-driven model that Insilico and other biotech firms are pioneering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Advertised as “a convention to discuss the civil and religious condition and rights of women,” it was organized by women Quakers along with pioneering women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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