How to Use pioneer in a Sentence

pioneer

1 of 2 noun
  • That’s not the case for Erykah Badu, the neo-soul pioneer whose last full-length album came out in 2010.
    Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • Launched in 2007, the site was a pioneer in writing about women.
    Maria Aspan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • One of his goals was to pay homage to pioneers who played integral roles in its growth.
    Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • One of the first queens to expand her work outside of Nashville’s gay clubs, Gentry is a pioneer in the city.
    Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
  • This year, British chef Simon Rogan, one of the pioneers of the farm-to-table movement, has taken over the reins.
    Nadia Michel, Robb Report, 20 July 2023
  • The world will forever remember him as a gifted artist and a pioneer in the realm of soul and R&B music.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Your dad Pepe Aguilar was a pioneer for infusing pop with rancheras.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Settlers styled themselves as pioneers who had won their land with their bare hands.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The desert state of Rajasthan is the Indian pioneer and has more solar pumps than any other.
    Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Back in the 1860s, people didn’t even know that bacteria caused disease, and Pasteur was one of the pioneers who figured that out.
    Steven Salzberg, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Bucking the trend requires guts and savvy, but when one is a pioneer, there is less competition and more room for growth.
    Justin Doebele, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • And now people can be grateful for Kristen for being the pioneer.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
  • For the next 35 years, Steve Johnson, his brother, a tech pioneer who lives in Cambridge, would work to solve the mystery of exactly what happened.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Colin Strickland, who was 35, was considered a pioneer in the sport.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • In the newest version of the Rolling Stone 500 Songs list, with so many recent songs joining the mix, all the great Fifties rock & roll pioneers unfortunately took a hit.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Robert Johnson, one of the earliest blues pioneers of Deep Ellum.
    Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • Sara Seager, an MIT professor and one of the early pioneers of exoplanet study, has watched the field grow first-hand.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But Netflix, the streaming pioneer, has long been the most dominant platform.
    Jake Coyle, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Griselda Blanco, whose life is now a Netflix series, was a cocaine trade pioneer who made her mark on the streets of Miami.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Altra was one of the mainstream pioneers of zero-drop shoes with a wide toe box, though many of their models have more midsole cushion than a true barefoot shoe.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • But back then, genetic genealogy was still new, and Moore was one of its pioneers.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Here, attendees can explore the core elements that define the genre and meet the iconic pioneers who paved the way for generations of artists.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The lake’s water volume has dropped by more than two-thirds since pioneers settled in the Salt Lake Valley, leaving much of its surface exposed and eroding.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In Rugby Union, teams like England's national squad are pioneers in this area.
    Neil Sahota, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The company is one of the pioneers of the electric vehicle revolution thanks to its early release of the Nissan Leaf in 2010.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 19 July 2023
  • The world’s car graveyard Mr. Otunga never set out to be a clean energy pioneer, or even to drive a motorcycle for a living at all.
    Lenny Rashid Ruvaga, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
  • There is activist Willie Nelson, Farm Aid’s co-founder and biofuel pioneer.
    Jason Mellard, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • What finally caught his full attention was a stretch of Biden’s speech honoring his father and other pioneers of the Black press.
    Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • Self-driving car pioneer Waymo announced Thursday that its robotaxis will be able to carry passengers through most of the Phoenix area for the first time.
    Michael Liedtke, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2023
  • Liron was an early investor in LendingClub, a peer-to-peer lending platform that established itself as a pioneer in unsecured loans.
    Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
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pioneer

2 of 2 verb
  • He helped pioneer a new route to the West.
  • He pioneered in the development of airplanes.
  • The new method of cancer treatment was pioneered by an international team of researchers.
  • Many of the cities that pioneered reducing car use—like Copenhagen in the 1970s—are rated today as some of the best places to live in the world.
    Andrew Kersley, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Brazilian butt lifts evolved from a derriere-lift surgery pioneered in the mid-1960s.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 6 Mar. 2024
  • It’s been unmatched for decades, pioneering all things dance and culture in the area.
    Carine Lavache, ELLE, 21 July 2023
  • Weiss pioneered the idea of genetic circuits, the first of which were based on DNA.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2024
  • India pioneered it on one of the largest irrigation projects in the world.
    Brittany Peterson and Sibi Arasu, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
  • Israel, then a poor country of a few million people, pioneered the use of drones in the 1970s.
    Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Society must catch up to the practices being pioneered by elites at the frontiers of the health system, the founders say.
    Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The concept of mind as an emergent property of the brain has been pioneered by Christian thinkers.
    Denis Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Health groups welcomed the idea, pioneered by New Zealand.
    Jill Lawless The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In the 1990s, Krystal pioneered the use of ketamine to treat depression.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Chita Rivera, revered and pioneering Tony-winning dancer and singer, dies at 91.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • As a music executive, Jay-Z pioneered some of the most notable pop music and hip-hop acts in the early 2000s.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
  • The Blackfoot Valley near Missoula has pioneered efforts to keep bears and people apart.
    Jim Robbins John Stember, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The technique was pioneered in the 1960s in Cuba but has rarely been used elsewhere - until recently.
    Rebecca Tan, Dera Menra Sijabat and Joshua Irwandi, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2023
  • One of those domes can be found perched on the roof the SAT itself, which has pioneered and evangelized the communal immersive model since 2011.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Jose Samir Renteria-Cuero, a 51-year-old Colombian man who pioneered the use of semi-submersible vessels, was sentenced to 27 years in prison eight years ago.
    Paul Best, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Dwight Twilley, one of the musicians who pioneered the rock subgenre known as power pop, died on Wednesday.
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • With this and other works, van Gogh helped pioneer the art movement known as Post-Impressionism.
    Simon Henriques, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
  • With their larger-than-life fame (and big hair to match) this pioneering foursome transformed the concept of a supermodel.
    Baze Mpinja, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
  • As a solo artist, Eno pioneered the genre of ambient music.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Percy Julian was a research chemist who pioneered the synthesis of medicines from plants.
    Macie Parker, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • California pioneered these policies more than a decade ago, and Washington wants to catch up.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 July 2023
  • A few miles inland, in the sleepy town of Waimea, chef/owner Peter Merriman has helped pioneer Hawaii’s fresh-food movement at his namesake restaurant.
    Alex Pulaski, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Over the past decade, pioneering urban dwellers and a parade of restaurants, pubs and breweries helped return North Park to its walkable glory.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In 1999, Condé Nast approached her with an offer to pioneer a shopping magazine.
    Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Esser, who has pioneered research in this area, says muscle clocks are key in guiding when the cell takes a break to rest and repair, including storing up energy, and when to get primed for activity.
    Will Stone, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Around this same time, the Egyptians pioneered the concept of a central government headed by the pharaoh, with smaller provinces known as nomes under the administration of local authorities.
    Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024

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