How to Use innovation in a Sentence

innovation

noun
  • Through technology and innovation, they found ways to get better results with less work.
  • She is responsible for many innovations in her field.
  • That said, this innovation comes at a steep price.
    — Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
  • This is where a little innovation goes a long way in a tiny stall.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 23 Mar. 2021
  • What has that done to our innovation?
    — CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The one downside to all this innovation is that none of it comes cheap.
    — Bob O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The next wave of innovation will be to expand sexed sperm to more species.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 3 July 2019
  • Webb’s innovation and purpose are seen as a threat in more ways than one.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 Feb. 2026
  • But the road to further innovation has been a bumpy one.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
  • This would drive down cost and allow for more innovation.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • These innovations are no longer niche.
    — Cyril Petit, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • That may be the most human innovation of all.
    — Arianna Huffington, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That’s what leads to true innovation.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • And yet the idea of a broad job guarantee is still an innovation too far.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
  • But the price for that innovation is the highest drug spending in the world.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 11 May 2018
  • Iron innovation came just in time for a Western world at war.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • What was once a wacky innovation has become a fact of getting around.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 25 May 2018
  • The key innovations of the past decade weren’t for sale at Best Buy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • For some, though, this little innovation in their lives was brought in by the menfolk.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 14 May 2020
  • In fact, the black robes judges wear leave little room for stylistic innovation.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2020
  • When the pace of innovation slows, standards emerge.
    — Jim McGregor, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The challenge now is to keep innovation and ethics in balance.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • What matters is the pace of innovation.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 13 June 2026
  • The idea for the center is one of innovation and science married with art.
    — Scott Luxor, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2022
  • Live music is nice, but there’s a lot of innovation that can happen in the music video.
    — Kristine Kwak, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The key will be, as always, innovation.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • And this is supposed to be ‘innovation’?
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 28 May 2026
  • A lot of people had been focusing on innovation all around the cups.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Along with that growth has also come innovation with access to a wider clientele.
    — Kevin Rozario, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The field was still mired in an innovation trough known as AI winter.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023

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