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Recent Examples of pioneered
There, she is being introduced to the city’s culture, history and globally influential educational philosophy, which has pioneered progressive approaches to early childhood development.
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Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
As Sportico has reported, Kalshi pioneered the use of a Request for Quote (RFQ) market structure to facilitate custom parlays, which were previously nonexistent on prediction markets.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 13 May 2026
The team at Colorado State University, where the late William Gray pioneered seasonal forecasting, has projected normal to slightly below normal activity with 13 tropical storms.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Billboard began publishing a Modern Rock chart (now called Alternative Airplay) in the fall of 1988 to track radio hits in the rising new format pioneered by stations like KROQ and WHFS.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 12 May 2026
So, what is left of the ultra-discount airline model that Spirit pioneered?
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
This January, satellite images showed some of the largest masses of sargassum ever for that month, according to Chuanmin Hu of University of South Florida, who pioneered satellite tracking of sargassum using NASA data.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 11 May 2026
As for steering a buggy to the Artemis base, compasses don’t work on the moon, and dust will adhere to optics, so NASA has pioneered plans to use Earth’s Galileo and GPS satellites to navigate.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
That connection led to Schwarzman’s joining an international advisory board at Tsinghua pioneered by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 May 2026
Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
As Sportico has reported, Kalshi pioneered the use of a Request for Quote (RFQ) market structure to facilitate custom parlays, which were previously nonexistent on prediction markets.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 13 May 2026
The team at Colorado State University, where the late William Gray pioneered seasonal forecasting, has projected normal to slightly below normal activity with 13 tropical storms.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Billboard began publishing a Modern Rock chart (now called Alternative Airplay) in the fall of 1988 to track radio hits in the rising new format pioneered by stations like KROQ and WHFS.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 12 May 2026
So, what is left of the ultra-discount airline model that Spirit pioneered?
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
This January, satellite images showed some of the largest masses of sargassum ever for that month, according to Chuanmin Hu of University of South Florida, who pioneered satellite tracking of sargassum using NASA data.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 11 May 2026
As for steering a buggy to the Artemis base, compasses don’t work on the moon, and dust will adhere to optics, so NASA has pioneered plans to use Earth’s Galileo and GPS satellites to navigate.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
That connection led to Schwarzman’s joining an international advisory board at Tsinghua pioneered by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pioneered
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The letter, sent Friday, comes amid a high-stakes legal battle currently playing out in an Oakland federal courtroom between onetime partners Altman and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who in 2015 co-founded the AI company best known for creating ChatGPT.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Monday’s celebrations at London’s Royal Albert Hall commemorates the 50th anniversary of The King’s Trust, a charity founded by King Charles III in 1976.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
11 May 2026
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The Visitors’ Lions were hastily established by the Biennale after the resignation of the jury, who were, of course, responsible for the assignment of the Golden Lion awards.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
11 May 2026
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Serialized vertical video series with episodes lasting just a few minutes apiece first established itself in Asia but has drawn significant investment Stateside in recent years.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
11 May 2026
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Chicken rice is a serious business in East and Southeast Asia, and the recipe at this prosaic storefront has a lineage that goes back to the celebrated version introduced in the 1970s at Chatterbox in Singapore.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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To raise awareness, this April, American outdoor brand Patagonia introduced a policy on Chinese e-commerce platforms requiring shoppers to pay 15 renminbi, or around $2, for their first item and 5 renminbi, or 70 cents, for each additional item at checkout.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
11 May 2026
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Drones in the Russia-Ukraine War The Russia-Ukraine conflict, initiated by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 (an extension of Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea) has served as a crucible for innovations in UAV warfare.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 May 2026
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Seaport Research also initiated coverage of Applied Materials at a buy rating and $500 price target on Monday.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
8 May 2026
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Last week, a group of Spirit’s former employees and fans launched an online campaign to buy the airline.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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Torres launched a shot in nearly the identical spot as Copeland for a two-run homer and Hagerty was on its way to Fort Myers.—
Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 May 2026
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No one person has incited violence, created divisions and preached hatred more than the current resident of the White House.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
10 May 2026
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Northern India already has some of the world’s most polluted air, created by a toxic mix of vehicle and industrial emissions, crop residue burning, and construction dust.—
Ayushi Shah,
CNN Money,
9 May 2026
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Southern’s new policy instituted segregation curtains in their dining cars.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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The government and the country’s space agency, ISRO, instituted this change in response to the rise of commercial space industries in the United States, and later China, that were playing an increasingly important role in global spaceflight.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
11 May 2026
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