as in to establish
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
innovated a new system for filing books that dramatically improved efficiency in libraries
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Recent Examples of innovate
Recognizing that the rental car counter often marks the final — and most exhausting — leg of a traveler’s journey, Hertz saw an opportunity to innovate.
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Tracy Yochum, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
Governments have a duty to innovate with AI and use it to increase efficiency, access, and transparency.
—Chris Lehane, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Through exceptional products, visionary thinking, impactful initiatives and concrete actions, L’Oréal remains committed to its unique mission to create beauty that inspires, to innovate beauty that transforms, and to share beauty that truly moves the world.
—Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2025
In a bid to innovate playtime, Mattel is tapping into one of the most powerful technologies of our era and bringing it directly into children’s bedrooms.
—Marc Fernandez, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2025
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Tracy Yochum, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
Governments have a duty to innovate with AI and use it to increase efficiency, access, and transparency.
—Chris Lehane, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Through exceptional products, visionary thinking, impactful initiatives and concrete actions, L’Oréal remains committed to its unique mission to create beauty that inspires, to innovate beauty that transforms, and to share beauty that truly moves the world.
—Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2025
In a bid to innovate playtime, Mattel is tapping into one of the most powerful technologies of our era and bringing it directly into children’s bedrooms.
—Marc Fernandez, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for innovate
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The roots of my family tree are firmly established in the soil of Great Britain.—
Elizabeth Bass Parman,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Period-appropriate musical elements will help establish the nostalgic atmosphere.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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Hence, clubs are turning to the player-trading model long pioneered, and more recently supercharged, by Chelsea.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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When tragedy strikes close to home, Six and Green are left with not only the tremendous pressure of their pioneering careers and the game itself, but also with the weight and contradiction of what is expected of them.—
Eliana Ramage
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Trump has previously ordered certain drug cartels — including five Mexican syndicates — to be designated as foreign terrorist organizations, and last month signed a Pentagon directive initiating the use of military force against drug trafficking groups.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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My dad, who was on AT&T, initiated the same test, and the Skylo phone still received one SMS message out of order as well.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
5 Sep. 2025
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When interviewed by officers, Burns admitted to creating multiple social media accounts to distribute and receive child pornography, including files of prepubescent children, the release states.—
NWA Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
6 Sep. 2025
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Russia's federal air transport agency, Rosaviatsiya, also introduced temporary flight restrictions at the airport in the early hours of Tuesday.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
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Getty Images In the 1983 movie WarGames, which starred Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy, much of the American public was introduced to the various levels of Defcon.—
Michael Lewis,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The new 12-night journey will launch in the summer of 2027 aboard the company's ice-breaking Le Commandant Charcot ship and is purposely designed to meet demand for a shorter cruise that still celebrates polar exploration, Ponant shared with Travel + Leisure.—
Katie Nadworny,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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The product launches demonstrate how Europe’s legacy manufacturers are taking the fight to their Chinese rivals, in a bid to both retain market share in the European Union and offset declining sales in China, the world’s largest car market.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement In some respects, Patagonia has hardly changed since Chouinard founded the company.—
David Gelles,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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With no clear winner yet, the European Industrial Alliance on Small Modular Reactors, a public-private platform founded by the European Commission in 2024, has been edging its bets.—
Anna Heim,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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In fact, Poland long managed to avoid recessions altogether, even throughout the 2008-2009 financial crisis, experiencing a downturn only during the outbreak of COVID-19 some three decades after instituting vast market privatization.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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Among others, States could institute proceedings before the International Court of Justice against the Taliban, as the de facto authorities, for their violations of the Genocide Convention.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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