pioneer

Once the leader of and undisputed standard-bearer for the TV-to-digital shift, the streaming pioneer has had to publicly contend with various moments of weakness throughout this year.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Maniscalco is an incredible businessman, and a pioneer in the craft of shouting a premise and then pausing until the audience agrees it’s a punchline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

BDT & MSD has roots in the family office of computer pioneer Michael Dell, and today it manages capital for his family as well as other investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"The first impression was, well, I thought it was completely irrelevant," says Diamos, a pioneer in harnessing Nvidia's powerful GPU chips for AI.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

“We can’t organize bigger and more influential deputations,” stated Harriot Stanton Blatch, the daughter of suffrage pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

AI pioneers looking over their shoulders with alarm.

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

The endeavour of these pioneers was a noble and timely one, and much of what they heard found itself reintegrated into new musical works and styles.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

But remember that before Oppenheimer tossed us into the nuclear age, he pioneered modern theoretical physics in the United States.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Founded as Ulster Plant Ltd in 1966, Powerscreen pioneered the concept of mobile screening.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Net-a-Porter pioneered selling designer clothes and accessories online when it was founded in 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The theft-prone models lack a critical safeguard called an engine immobilizer pioneered in the mid-1980s, when more than 60,000 cars a year were stolen in Los Angeles alone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

By now the new science of bacteriology, pioneered by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, had convinced most public health officials that contaminated drinking water caused the spread of cholera and other bacterial diseases.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

William H. Draper III, a pioneering Silicon Valley venture capitalist, died on Sept. 8 at the age of 98.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

She was someone who co-founded a pioneering nonprofit in the crucible of a changing South L.A. in the 1990s and always seemed to land on the right side of history until becoming mayor in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

"This is the pioneering study showing that polyethylene can contribute to fatty liver disease and the use of spatial transcriptomics has determined exactly where the damage has happened within the liver," Joshi said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said she had been a "pioneering defence attorney for anti-apartheid activists" who had worked to "uphold human dignity and bring hope in South Africa and to peoples globally".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Many westerners believed that the pioneering women who had moved west and endured significant hardship now deserved the right to participate in government through the vote.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling