INNOVATING Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

innovating

verb

present participle of innovate

as in establishing

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 innovating Hawk advocates imitating others before innovating, leveraging existing strengths like Wayne Gretzky, and embracing a beginner's mindset. — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 This is Toyota playing catch-up rather than innovating, though. — New Atlas, 20 July 2026 Like, how much of this is Musk doing stuff, inventing stuff, innovating stuff? — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026 That part of it is always fascinating, ’cause these guys were innovating in completely unregulated areas. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2026 Georgia Tech researchers and Zoo Atlanta are innovating technology to keep elephants healthy and sharp. — Monique John, CBS News, 9 June 2026

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Beyond establishing a correlation between aid and degree completion, our analyses suggest that even modest financial aid has a significant lifting effect.

— Jay A. Perman, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2026
Cameron doesn't waste a second of that time, however, establishing characters (see above), introducing Newt, showing off the geography of the Hadley's Hope terraforming base, and building a creeping sense of dread.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of establishing

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Prior to founding Betty Jo’s Creamery in Brooklyn, New York, Erin Forden and Maddie Nehlen had full-time jobs in the hospitality tech space, an area where AI was looming large.

— Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Ternus now has the power to build his own executive team and elevate rising talent who understand Apple’s founding culture of innovation.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 25 July 2026

Definition of founding

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Griffin and his wife, pioneering architect Marion Mahony, who had both started their careers at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park Studio, had beaten 136 competitors to design a new capital city for Australia.

— Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
There are several promising trends that other countries are now building upon, reflecting the importance of Australia’s pioneering policies.

— Ravi Iyer, Time, 18 July 2026

Definition of pioneering

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Last year, Holscher and Corson both voted to approve a 20-year sales tax exemptions for developers who commit to investing $250 million and creating at least 20 permanent jobs.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026
Creator culture can imitate the feeling of belonging without creating the lasting structure of belonging.

— Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of creating

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The company shared those results with the FDA on July 21 before voluntarily initiating the recall.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 24 July 2026
Hugging Face said that from its analysis, the AI agent attacking its systems seems to have acted entirely on its own, without any human initiating the attack or directing its progress.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 20 July 2026

Definition of initiating

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Restaurants are introducing alpha-gal-friendly menus and tweaking recipes to accommodate the allergic.

— Andy Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2026
Alongside the launch, Anthropic is introducing beta features that allow developers to change available tools mid-conversation without invalidating prompt caches and automatically route flagged API requests to another model.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026

Definition of introducing

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Harvick, who on May 19th was named to the latest class in the NASCAR Hall Of Fame and will be inducted next January, believes his first Brickyard 400 win on August 3, 2003, served as the launching pad to his Hall of Fame career.

— Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
French authorities ordered the complete evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula on Friday, launching boats to help rescue people from the popular tourist destination that’s now threatened by wildfires.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 24 July 2026

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