pioneer
noun
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
pioneered
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past participleof pioneer.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof pioneer.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
pioneernouna person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
Example Sentences
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He was cast in Breaking Bad at 14, and told Channel 4 News in 2016 that the show "pioneered a lot of TV and writers to be more brave".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
But remember that before Oppenheimer tossed us into the nuclear age, he pioneered modern theoretical physics in the United States.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
The theft-prone models lack a critical safeguard called an engine immobilizer pioneered in the mid-1980s, when more than 60,000 cars a year were stolen in Los Angeles alone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The researchers reached that conclusion using a technique they pioneered with Raman spectroscopy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
That language was pioneered in English, where, for example, ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning during the seventeenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
