innovating

present participle of innovate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of innovating Such success stories are encouraging businesses at every stage of the supply chain management process to explore new technologies, with start-ups innovating at pace to meet the demand. David Prosser, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Flamingo Estate Green Goddess Soap Brick, $44; flamingoestate,com SkinMedica has been innovating in the skincare space since 1999. Jackie Fields, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025 This kind of creativity is essential for innovating in complex business landscapes, as well as daily life. Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025 The Hub is innovating for the future with affordable, zero-waste, rentable service ware. News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025 Over 130 years later, Primus is still hard at work innovating in the portable cooking space. New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025 And Namdari said that innovating and trying to develop the field are what make the top-tier surgeons stand apart. Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025 Unlike other Kentucky distilleries with upscale bars and restaurants as part of their ever-innovating visitor experiences, Buffalo Trace in Frankfort hasn't followed suit. Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 14 Aug. 2025 People were finding hope, connecting with one another and innovating new approaches to HIV prevention and treatment. Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innovating
Verb
  • Oz aired for six seasons, establishing HBO as a home for serious adult dramas, and establishing Winters’s screen image, as well — that captivating blend of menace and vulnerability.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The risk with this approach is that Harvard would live to fight another day, but become complicit in establishing a precedent that goes against the fundamental rights inherent in our democracy.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • DanceWorks Chicago, a longtime incubator that wrote the book on springboarding early career performers, plans to sunset at the end of the year, aligned with founding artistic director Julie Nakagawa’s retirement.
    Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • That’s exactly the sort of work that Jason Wiggam, a founding partner of Wiggam Law in Atlanta, Georgia, does.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rise of Asian venture capital In the early 2000s, pioneering firms like GGV Capital (Singapore) and IDG Capital (Beijing) imported Silicon Valley’s venture playbook—multistage funding, board guidance and equity-for-pay.
    Rich Karlgaard, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The company initially faced significant challenges in bringing its pioneering technology to Bay Area streets and highways, with some local leaders chafing against their lack of authority over where the vehicles operate.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Officials are now working on drafting new rules and licensing regulations that would change that, creating a new type of marijuana business allowed in the city after voters legalized recreational marijuana statewide in 2022.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Millions will die, but society will finally get serious about creating adequate fail-safes for this new technology.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These participants’ accounts suggest that initiating divorce is often less about conflict with a partner and more about reclaiming control over one’s life and decisions.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Neckties and pussycat bows remain a Bella Freud signature, and Ruspoli also helped Freud secure her first clothing commission—by introducing her to his friend Keith Richards.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Both are in Toronto introducing the project to potential collaborators and partners in town for the Toronto Film Festival.
    Jennie Punter, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Later this month, Zeteo is launching a morning political newsletter written from a progressive perspective.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That has included Newsom ramping up his social media presence, frequently parodying Trump with the all-caps statements that the president uses, as well as launching a merchandise shop that features many of the slogans Trump has on his signature hats, only with Newsom’s name swapped in.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Innovating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innovating. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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