How to Use innovate in a Sentence

innovate

verb
  • The company innovated a new operating system.
  • The company plans to continue innovating and experimenting.
  • The only clear path forward for Europe is to innovate—or at least embrace it.
    Byalex Wood Morton, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Intel’s stock price declined over the past two years as the company failed to innovate for the new growth markets.
    Christian Stadler, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The beloved brand continues to innovate with this hair oil that hydrates, encourages growth and combats split ends.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Colin, stuck in the past, ran Marianne into the ground, but Daniel has been trying to innovate.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
  • American and European companies will need to innovate faster to compete in the super-app race.
    Elad Natanson, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Banks face stiff competition with the rise of free online and mobile banking services, in some cases forcing them to innovate in consumers’ favor.
    Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The team continues to innovate, setting their sights on opening a third space at Handshake — adjacent to their ground-level floor — later in the year.
    Megan Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Chow has worked closely with the quarterback throughout the process and is most excited about the performance apparel and the potential to innovate in that arena.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The compromise is to allow the USPS to innovate and grow on an equal footing with competitors in open markets.
    WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The challenge was to find a way to innovate, Collins says.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Our roads will have to innovate, much like the cars themselves.
    Sarah Engel, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In the meantime, those in the space will continue to innovate.
    Justin Doom, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Hewlett loved to walk the company and find ways to innovate from the workers.
    Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Sure mental health is a hard place to innovate, but no field needs it more.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time that the team has had to innovate to provide NASA coverage.
    Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Aug. 2022
  • If there’s one thing for certain, Swift is gonna innovate, vate, vate.
    Vulture, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In turn, the show will need to innovate on those terms to stay interesting.
    Vulture, 1 Mar. 2023
  • With the move to smart locks, Schlage continues to innovate and impress.
    Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The best thing about fashion is that there’s always the will to innovate, and this week is all about making something new.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 20 Jan. 2023
  • And the right tools to ensure Overjet can innovate quickly.
    John Kell, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But how can Björk herself grow and innovate now that pop culture has caught up?
    William Earl, Variety, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The duo clearly hasn’t lost the ability to innovate, though, as this most recent drop shows.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2023
  • NFTs and the Metaverse are pretty much all the buzz, and more than ever, brands are finding ways to innovate the space even further.
    Amanda Mitchell, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • It's got a certain freedom to it which allows people to innovate and think outside of the box.
    Nik Popli / Aspen, TIME, 30 June 2024
  • New forms of paint must innovate beyond that—into the realm of physics, not just aesthetics.
    WIRED, 22 Mar. 2023
  • What is so commonplace that no one has bothered to innovate it in years?
    Ryan Fritsch, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • And it’s continued to innovate and move the industry needle over the years.
    Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2023

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