INVENTORS Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

inventors

noun

plural of inventor

as in designers

one who creates or introduces something new the inventor of the electric light bulb

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Recent Examples of inventors In return for this disclosure, inventors — and any companies that license the patents — receive a limited period of time where no rival is able to copy the discovery and sell it as their own. — Dr. Bowman Heiden, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026 Its real impact emerged as leaders, inventors and entrepreneurs redesigned factories, cities, products, infrastructure and daily life around capabilities that had not previously existed at scale. — Brian Solis, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 And yet, despite America’s best efforts, in the midst of this horror, millions of artists, travelers, and inventors created love, and light. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 In real life, human progress has often outpaced the ability of its inventors to control it. — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026 Several concessionaires at the fair have been touted as the inventors of the ice-cream cone. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026 The key role here is to connect inventors such as Fry with people from other departments needed for further project development, such as manufacturing, quality control, and sales. — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026 Robot speech Way back in the 1700s, inventors tried to make machines work like your lungs and throat do. — Tam Nguyen, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2026 Innovation has long relied on the integrity of inventors to ensure the authenticity of their creativity and toil. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Design pillars include burgeoning design gallery The Future Perfect, which supports independent designers.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
And there are suddenly plenty of designers available for the job.

— Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of designers

Noun

GitHub leaders have said in the past that as much if not more than 80% of code could eventually be written by AI, especially as developers become more comfortable working with AI tools.

— Corynn Winston, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026
Distillation is a technique in which developers use a more advanced AI model’s outputs to train another system.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of developers

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An American who knows nothing about real football comes to the place where it was invented and attempts to tell the creators of the sport how to play.

— Jay Martel, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
This latest collaboration builds on Moynat’s push to work with artists and pop-culture creators.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of creators

Noun

Ithaca Holdings co-founders Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman will become co-CEOs.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
So the city loses out not only on new companies that would otherwise set up shop here but also on a group of founders who might have channeled their profits into the next generation of startups.

— Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of founders

Noun

Connection and capital are the two main draws at this year's conference, where innovators across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, healthcare, and robotics are taking the stage to make their case for growth funding.

— La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Swindell helped establish the South Florida Marine Research Hub, bringing university researchers, businesses, and innovators together around opportunities in the ocean economy.

— David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of innovators

Noun

The authors found a long-run relationship between top incomes and art prices and argued that high-end art prices are driven less by the average person’s buying power than by how much the wealthiest can spend.

— Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
The authors noted the circumstances surrounding the violent act, and whether other early humans could have been involved in the individual’s death, were completely unknown.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026

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