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His successor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, has taken that to heart with the kind of innovatory spirit that he had brought to the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2025

But this was transparently driven by commercial rather than imaginative or innovatory forces.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2018

Because, like the nutty professor, Lewis was an explosive experimenter with a dazzling skill, and an audacious, innovatory flair for the technique of the cinema.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2017

It's cheaper and less risky to convince customers that something is ground-breaking, even when it isn't, than develop something truly innovatory.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2012

But I might as well have aspired to sing them up in heaven, so utterly would they have been spurned as innovatory.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth