as in invention
something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination
the computer is one innovation that revolutionized the business world
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Recent Examples of innovation
The work drew on major detector upgrades, accelerator innovations, and computing power from Berkeley Lab’s NERSC facility and Brookhaven’s data centers.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
Driveline has become an innovation lab for baseball over the past decade, with teams regularly poaching its staff to augment their own sports science programs.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
These women brought radical innovations to the movement.
—Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Science and innovation has shifted the priority for today’s consumers and industry goals from immediate appearance and reactive care to advanced treatments, preventative care, and long term payoff.
—Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
Driveline has become an innovation lab for baseball over the past decade, with teams regularly poaching its staff to augment their own sports science programs.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
These women brought radical innovations to the movement.
—Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Science and innovation has shifted the priority for today’s consumers and industry goals from immediate appearance and reactive care to advanced treatments, preventative care, and long term payoff.
—Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for innovation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innovation
Noun
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Out of this mess came the last great invention of the twentieth century.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Jacques Cousteau’s 1949 aqualung invention spurred a new era of undersea activity.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There are obstacles to the creation of a drone wall, namely its financing, management — given its cross-border nature and the diversity of airspace security laws — as well as issues to do with technical integration, according to Miriam McNabb, editor in chief of the online Dronelife publication.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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City of Yes passed at the end of last year, promising to create more than 80,000 new homes over 15 years, in part by legalizing the creation of apartments in people’s backyards or basements of people’s single- and two-family homes.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Innovation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innovation. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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