innovative

adjective in·no·va·tive \ ˈi-nə-ˌvā-tiv \

|Updated on: 5 Aug 2018

Examples: innovative in a Sentence

Definition of innovative

: characterized by, tending to, or introducing innovations

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innovatively

adverb

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innovativeness

noun

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Examples of innovative in a Sentence

an innovative approach to the problem
a creative and innovative young designer

Recent Examples of innovative from the Web

One is that the system will not be able to heal itself from within — true improvement will come only from innovative new entrants driving creative destruction from the outside.

— alexi nazem, STAT, "Health care needs more physician CEOs like Atul Gawande," 13 July 2018
The company also reorganised itself along three business lines: innovative medicines, established brands and consumer health care.

— The Economist, "Business this week," 12 July 2018
This program, the YIH Eishet Chayil Initiative, is one of 16 innovative programs in 11 states that were selected from a field of 93 applications for OU's Women's Initiative Challenge Grant.

— sergio carmona, Jewish Journal, "Synagogue's new women's program receives grant from OU," 6 July 2018
Malik mentioned an example of an innovative, open program that already exists within music: Island Co:Lab, an influencer and creative initiative homegrown from within Island Records' U.K. offices.

— cherie hu, Billboard, "Young Entrepreneurs Share Their Blueprint for Music Innovation at IMS Ibiza: Exclusive," 13 June 2018
The other is that those innovative companies must be led by people intimately familiar with what is happening on the frontlines of care: doctors, nurses, and others who directly care for patients.

— alexi nazem, STAT, "Health care needs more physician CEOs like Atul Gawande," 13 July 2018
Hundreds of innovative companies built Philly’s rowhouse neighborhoods — Midvale Steel and Stetson Hat, Baldwin and Brill, Cramp’s and Disston.

— joseph n. distefano, Philly.com, "Philly poverty: Cause, or effect?," 11 July 2018
Urban Coup is one of five innovative housing initiatives that put community at their heart.

— michael taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, "Won't you be my neighbor: Melbourne experiments with community-led housing," 11 July 2018
The 100-acre campus was designed to be innovative and environmentally sensitive.

— lily altavena, azcentral, "Could Mesa's Red Mountain campus close? Maricopa Community Colleges board to discuss future," 27 June 2018

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