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one who creates or introduces something new
the inventor of the electric light bulb
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Recent Examples of inventor
This wasn’t enough for the inventors.
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Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
The drifter who confessed to killing an inventor and his wife was executed Tuesday night, more than three decades after the double murder in their Miami business.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Then in 1881, at a great exhibition on electricity in Paris, Edison and several other inventors demonstrated their light bulbs.
—Ernest Freeberg, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
While outsiders may imagine Hollywood’s superficial glamour, Herzog sees a metropolis teeming with artists, writers and inventors.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
An earlier model of the killer girl 'bot was turned into a lethal weapon by the military but has gone rogue, and M3GAN's inventor (Allison Williams) needs to give the original a super-duper upgrade to stop the deadly newcomer.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
The inventor, named in several versions of the story as Zhang Qifeng, later found to be non-existent, was reported to expect a prototype within a year and a retail price below 100,000 yuan (Around $13,900).
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Their adoring fourteen-year-old daughter, Hedvig (Maaike Laanstra-Corn), believes her layabout father to be a great inventor, but this, too, is a comforting lie.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Most sources credit Lionel Sternberger as the inventor of the iconic cheeseburger in the 1920s.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
The drifter who confessed to killing an inventor and his wife was executed Tuesday night, more than three decades after the double murder in their Miami business.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Then in 1881, at a great exhibition on electricity in Paris, Edison and several other inventors demonstrated their light bulbs.
—Ernest Freeberg, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
While outsiders may imagine Hollywood’s superficial glamour, Herzog sees a metropolis teeming with artists, writers and inventors.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
An earlier model of the killer girl 'bot was turned into a lethal weapon by the military but has gone rogue, and M3GAN's inventor (Allison Williams) needs to give the original a super-duper upgrade to stop the deadly newcomer.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
The inventor, named in several versions of the story as Zhang Qifeng, later found to be non-existent, was reported to expect a prototype within a year and a retail price below 100,000 yuan (Around $13,900).
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Their adoring fourteen-year-old daughter, Hedvig (Maaike Laanstra-Corn), believes her layabout father to be a great inventor, but this, too, is a comforting lie.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Most sources credit Lionel Sternberger as the inventor of the iconic cheeseburger in the 1920s.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inventor
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Caroline Ervin, landscape designer and owner of The Georgetown Garden Shop, told shrubs that produce berries in the fall are especially valuable during migration season, offering essential nutrition to birds in need of high-fat, energy-rich foods.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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At eBay’s secondhand runway shows in New York and London, models wore pre-loved designer pieces that guests could shop live.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Rival Nvidia, however, has sold developer kits for its robot chips that can be directly purchased from retailers for as little as $249, and has said that robotics is the company’s biggest growth opportunity after AI.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2025
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Cen said one of the ways that AI developers might induce models to provide fairer political information is by encouraging more back-and-forth over issues and avoiding personalized responses.—
Patrick Kulp,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2025
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In fact, taking stock of your insurance is a great place to start, said Elizabeth Hausler, founder and former CEO of Build Change, a global nonprofit that helps homeowners make their properties more resilient.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Chris Dreja, a musician, photographer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member who was a co-founder of the pioneering British rock band the Yardbirds and a co-writer of many of that band’s songs, has died, according to social media posts from his sister-in-law and his former bandmate Jimmy Page.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
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In case that wasn't enough of a wink from the show's creators, there's a scene in the finale where the head nurse at the institution holding Gein advises him to write a book, noting that so many other people have taken liberties with his story.—
JR Radcliffe,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Other notable attendees at the amFar event include actress Teri Hatcher, Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan, Diana Ross and Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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This led to experiments involving anthropologists, culinary innovators and food scientists, food innovation researcher Nabila Rodríguez Valerón told CNN.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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That research spanned local authorities, collectors, sorters, graders, recyclers, manufacturers, innovators, technology providers, brands and retailers.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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This once-passing fad, never projected by the originators or detractors to make it this far, had smashed every measurable and monetizable metric over the last half century.—
Rodney Carmichael,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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Boyle is a great example of what Carthy was talking about, the originator of an oral history and a certain type of folk song, passed by word of mouth around a fanbase and through generations.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Inventor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inventor. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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