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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024