as in inventions
something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination
the computer is one innovation that revolutionized the business world
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Recent Examples of innovations
As supply chains evolve and demands change, plant and factory managers are encouraged to adapt, with technological innovations continually elevating operations.
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Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
The industry can’t innovate if the brands don’t invest in those innovations.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2026
The Newberry Consort explores how instruments also evolved thanks to technological innovations, contrasting music from the Renaissance against similar selections from the Middle Ages.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Travel inspired by books is no new thing—readers have been aching for their own Eat, Pray, Love experience since, well, Eat, Pray, Love—but these innovations have literary tourism booming like never before.
—Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Jan. 2026
Among the central innovations of prediction markets is the idea that an unequal playing field might actually facilitate the truth.
—Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
The year ahead promises new health care innovations alongside major changes to public health policy.
—Michael S. Roth, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2026
Almost six years later, hospital at home has become one of the most meaningful care-delivery innovations to emerge from the pandemic.
—Lee Fleisher, STAT, 6 Jan. 2026
Governors and mayors, the public and private sector, civil society and multilateral organizations will come together to champion subnational collaboration, mobilize financing for local climate projects and build the local innovations already driving global progress.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
The industry can’t innovate if the brands don’t invest in those innovations.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2026
The Newberry Consort explores how instruments also evolved thanks to technological innovations, contrasting music from the Renaissance against similar selections from the Middle Ages.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Travel inspired by books is no new thing—readers have been aching for their own Eat, Pray, Love experience since, well, Eat, Pray, Love—but these innovations have literary tourism booming like never before.
—Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Jan. 2026
Among the central innovations of prediction markets is the idea that an unequal playing field might actually facilitate the truth.
—Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
The year ahead promises new health care innovations alongside major changes to public health policy.
—Michael S. Roth, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2026
Almost six years later, hospital at home has become one of the most meaningful care-delivery innovations to emerge from the pandemic.
—Lee Fleisher, STAT, 6 Jan. 2026
Governors and mayors, the public and private sector, civil society and multilateral organizations will come together to champion subnational collaboration, mobilize financing for local climate projects and build the local innovations already driving global progress.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for innovations
inventions
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For centuries, people gathering in bars and pubs have found ways to occupy their time, whether that’s classic games like billiards and darts or more recent inventions like video games and mechanical bulls.—
Fritz Hahn,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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The printing press, clocks, muskets — all these inventions changed humankind forever.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Innovations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innovations. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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