as in settlers
a person who settles in a new region
the hardships that the pioneers endured while taming the wilderness
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to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
he single-handedly pioneered the university's institute for medical research
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Recent Examples of pioneers
Andre Byik, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Soundgarden Soundgarden are widely considered one of the great pioneers of grunge.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Nov. 2025
By offering a solution to the throngs of independent resale stores that followed in the footsteps of buy-and-sell pioneers like Round Two, OS Group has been able to carve a lucrative niche in an otherwise crowded space.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
Considered one of the pioneers of talk radio on WJR, Pierce chatted with a wide swath of figures and, in the station’s heyday, traveled the globe on assignments.
—Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 3 Nov. 2025
From the transistor pioneers of the 1950s to the dense GPU networks of today, computing’s pace is climbing an exponential curve.
—Chelsea Haney
october 30, New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2025
History San Jose hosts the free event at the Gonzales/Peralta Adobe and Carmela and Thomas Fallon House sites near San Pedro Square Market, showcasing the city’s indigenous inhabitants, its Spanish and Mexican pioneers and its modern residents.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
This year’s festival is an expansion of the annual Apple Festival of past years, offering insights into the early history of the area, the pioneers who planted apple orchards, games, square dancing, food, music and crafts.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
For years, crypto in the United States was a largely theoretical project — a parallel financial system led by a community of extremely online pioneers, who believed the future of money lay in computer networks outside the control of governments or central banks.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
DiLoCoX pioneers a number of novel techniques, including pipeline parallelism, adaptive gradient compression, one-step-delay communication overlaps and local training, to create a decentralized AI training environment that scales to unprecedented heights.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
Newcomers began to arrive almost immediately, with the growth driven by the forty-niners ‒ the gold-seeking pioneers who began flocking west in 1849.
—Andre Byik, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Soundgarden Soundgarden are widely considered one of the great pioneers of grunge.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Nov. 2025
By offering a solution to the throngs of independent resale stores that followed in the footsteps of buy-and-sell pioneers like Round Two, OS Group has been able to carve a lucrative niche in an otherwise crowded space.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
Considered one of the pioneers of talk radio on WJR, Pierce chatted with a wide swath of figures and, in the station’s heyday, traveled the globe on assignments.
—Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 3 Nov. 2025
From the transistor pioneers of the 1950s to the dense GPU networks of today, computing’s pace is climbing an exponential curve.
—Chelsea Haney
october 30, New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2025
History San Jose hosts the free event at the Gonzales/Peralta Adobe and Carmela and Thomas Fallon House sites near San Pedro Square Market, showcasing the city’s indigenous inhabitants, its Spanish and Mexican pioneers and its modern residents.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
This year’s festival is an expansion of the annual Apple Festival of past years, offering insights into the early history of the area, the pioneers who planted apple orchards, games, square dancing, food, music and crafts.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
For years, crypto in the United States was a largely theoretical project — a parallel financial system led by a community of extremely online pioneers, who believed the future of money lay in computer networks outside the control of governments or central banks.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
HackQuest pioneers this approach by creating comprehensive developer profiles on the blockchain.
—Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
DiLoCoX pioneers a number of novel techniques, including pipeline parallelism, adaptive gradient compression, one-step-delay communication overlaps and local training, to create a decentralized AI training environment that scales to unprecedented heights.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pioneers
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Over the past two years, the Shehadehs have made several attempts to return to their land and their crops – only to be pushed back by settlers, the army or both.—
Zeena Saifi,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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White South Africans, whose roots can be traced to settlers arriving under Dutch and British colonial rule, dominated the country through a system of racial segregation known as apartheid from 1948 until its abolishment in the early 1990s.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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American colonists built homes out of chestnut wood, baked with chestnut flour, and in some cases even paid taxes in chestnuts.—
Todd Plummer,
Vogue,
11 Nov. 2025
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Britain’s loyalist supporters, for instance, tried repeatedly to weaponize their fellow colonists’ reflexive fear of foreigners, spreading ugly rumors that French Catholic soldiers had orders to persecute American Protestants, claim their lands for King Louis, and ban the speaking of English.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Another provision establishes an access ban for minors.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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The endowment establishes the Kevin Feige Division of Film & Television Production and will be a source of funding for faculty, students with additional programmatic support.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Monness Crespi Hardt & Co initiates Circle as buy Monness said Circle has a wide moat.—
Michael Bloom,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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One player initiates by entering the ball to Jokic at the elbow or high post, then setting or receiving a screen from another teammate.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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The third movie in the franchise reunites Fisher with the rest of the original Four Horsemen — Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, and Dave Franco — as well as Mark Ruffalo and Morgan Freeman, and introduces new cast members Rosamund Pike, Ariana Greenblatt, Dominic Sessa, and Justice Smith.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Nov. 2025
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The Cipriani family's 71-story tower in Downtown Dubai introduces two collections of residences—the Signature and the Nobile—and even offers buyers a path to the city’s coveted Golden Visa.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
7 Nov. 2025
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Located on Florida's Space Coast, where NASA launches actually happen, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex puts you right in the heart of America's space program.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Nov. 2025
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The new series, which launches on November 12, is a combination of the original Hot Ones with the classic party game.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Repot plants every two to three years into a container that is one to two sizes larger than the current pot.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
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The drop in temperatures comes as several states have already experienced their first frost or hard freeze, with NWS meteorologists advising people to bring pets and plants indoors as far south as Texas and Alabama as winter temperatures take hold.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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