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innovated a new system for filing books that dramatically improved efficiency in libraries
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Recent Examples of innovated
She has continually innovated, elevated, and strengthened Variety with vision and passion, demonstrating an unparalleled ability to embrace challenges and drive success.
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William Earl, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
As a heritage brand with deep roots—founded in 1853 in what is now Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood—the brand has innovated from horsehair and straw beds to even more premium natural materials like cotton batting.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 5 Oct. 2025
Those tactics were historically associated with the fossil fuel, pharmaceutical and tobacco industries, but tech companies have innovated on and rejuvenated the lobbying form.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
American Airlines AAdvantage has innovated by targeting mid-tier members.
—Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Originating and innovated in Italy, espresso is a drink produced by a specialized machine that brews single or double doses of highly concentrated coffee using high-temperature water and 9-10 atmospheric bars of pressure.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
The brand has also innovated on lightweight uppers.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
William Earl, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
As a heritage brand with deep roots—founded in 1853 in what is now Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood—the brand has innovated from horsehair and straw beds to even more premium natural materials like cotton batting.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 5 Oct. 2025
Those tactics were historically associated with the fossil fuel, pharmaceutical and tobacco industries, but tech companies have innovated on and rejuvenated the lobbying form.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
American Airlines AAdvantage has innovated by targeting mid-tier members.
—Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Originating and innovated in Italy, espresso is a drink produced by a specialized machine that brews single or double doses of highly concentrated coffee using high-temperature water and 9-10 atmospheric bars of pressure.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
The brand has also innovated on lightweight uppers.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innovated
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Orbiting Laboratory Advertisement The science work that will be done aboard the commercial stations was also pioneered aboard the ISS.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
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Around the same time, the Human-Machine Interaction Group pioneered early work in virtual reality, building headsets and gloves that foreshadowed today’s AR/VR technology.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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Jared Isaacman, who founded the payments company Shift4, has organized, funded and commanded two private astronaut missions to Earth orbit, both of them using SpaceX hardware.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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All the company had emitted since Gates founded it in 1975 would be gone, the full footprint washed away.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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If successful, Proposition 50 would ditch a nonpartisan commission California voters established via a 2010 ballot initiative that draws those district boundaries.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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After joining Harvard’s faculty, Morgan established the Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute in 2007, recognizing the genre’s deep intellectual and cultural value at a time when few in academia did.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Dark energy was introduced as a placeholder force to explain this accelerating expansion.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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More on the science behind the portfolio diet A few small studies led by Jenkins in 2003, including the trial that introduced the diet to the world, found an association between following the portfolio diet and a lower risk of heart disease and stroke.—
Renée Onque,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
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An investigation initiated after their deaths discovered that Pearce had raped several women across more than a decade.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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Ahead of the stock’s Nasdaq debut, BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage of Solstice with a buy-equivalent rating and a price target of $70 apiece.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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See our fan gallery created by Courier Journal photographer Scott Utterback.—
Stephanie Stremplewski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Examples include the hospitality boxes F1 has created with Lewis Hamilton and Gordon Ramsay for 2025.—
Patrick Iversen,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The software, called VenApp, was originally launched by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2022 as a hybrid application, integrating a messaging service with a helpline for people to report issues with utility services, such as power outages and water disruptions.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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For instance, Biden, with the other G7 leaders, launched a six-hundred-billion-dollar multilateral effort—the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment—to offer infrastructure financing to developing countries as an alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Murphy and Roberston devote their first act to the series of Conference of the Parties (COP) summits that preceded the climactic negotiations in Kyoto in 1997, which instituted a framework, severely weakened by compromise, for international cooperation on reducing emissions.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2025
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In a statement, a Spotify spokesperson refuted the notion that the company gains from streaming fraud and pointed toward efforts the streaming service has instituted to combat the practice.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Innovated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innovated. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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