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innovate

[in-uh-veyt] / ˈɪn əˌveɪt /


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"It's super exciting. I think it was time to try something new and innovate within athletics," Duplantis said.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

With rentals belly up and access to films democratized, there was no further push to innovate, no concerted attempt to compete with the real Hollywood studios.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

They say the decision is sort of to make space to innovate the live show and incorporate new things.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Dynamism occurs when newcomers can innovate before lawyers—or regulators—arrive.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

It cannot at this time be too often repeated, line upon line, precept upon precept, until it comes into the currency of a proverb,—To innovate is not to reform.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

A Nike spokeswoman said that more diverse interests in China plays to Nike’s strengths as a company that innovates across sporting categories.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

Besson innovates with a subplot about Dracul’s foray into the world of perfume as he develops an intoxicating fragrance in Florence using French lavender, testing the potion on the pre-Revolution socialites in towering white-powdered wigs.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 6, 2026

Meta hasn’t been sitting idly by while OpenAI innovates.

From MarketWatch Oct. 13, 2025

Here’s a contrarian thought: That critique misses a wider point about how Apple innovates, because the company has used the project to power a whole ecosystem of products and services that have been unmitigated successes.

From New York Times Feb. 28, 2024

But there is no certainty beforehand; and if he fails, he expects blame not because he innovates, but because he has failed by innovating.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley

Novo has struggled to keep pace with Lilly, a nimble competitor that innovated with the way it sold GLP-1 medications like Zepbound.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

Against the country that had innovated the jogo bonito, Haaland’s performance was a masterpiece of straightforward brutality.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Cesena, like most Italian clubs, rent their stadium and training facilities from the local authority, but Cole has innovated where he can.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

In addition to focusing on its flagship Pepsi brand, the company has innovated in various ways as consumers become more interested in health and wellness.

From Barron's Mar. 5, 2026

Tristan und Isolde is an out-and-out masterpiece, with sweeping, yearning themes, deserving of its place in music’s pantheon, whatever it may or may not have innovated.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

"It is an attempt to just start experimenting a bit and innovating, with an event that will determine who really is the best of the best," Coe told BBC Sport.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

The bad guys are always innovating and working around them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

“It is during this period that leading companies find ways to differentiate themselves by innovating, delivering new and superior solutions, and driving durable growth. This is where PayPal needs to focus.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

As someone who is perennially image-conscious, constantly innovating, and occasionally rash, it’s not surprising that an artist like Madonna would incorporate new technology into her art.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

As this innovating creature sought for agents of power in the wilderness about him, he blindly laid hands upon such of the fellow tenants of the wilds as might serve his immediate needs.

From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler




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