How to Use pioneer in a Sentence

pioneer

1 of 2 noun
  • Cher was a pioneer in that way.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Sean Evans is a pioneer of this wave.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The movie isn’t just a paean to a pioneer spirit.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Once again, guinea pig/pioneer.
    — Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • And yet the pioneers kept heading west for decades.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Netflix was a pioneer of the binge.
    — Melonee Hurt, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • At his core, Lamar Hunt was a pioneer.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 22 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Settlers styled themselves as pioneers who had won their land with their bare hands.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The early pioneers set the tone.
    — Gina Góngora, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2026
  • After a close first half, the pioneers took it away in the final minutes.
    — Kevin Ko, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Andrew was known as a pioneer in the field of gene therapy.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 10 June 2026
  • The whole opening of the film pays homage to those pioneers of cinema.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 June 2026
  • None of this is a condemnation of the pioneers in this field.
    — Tetiana Aleksandrova, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • But dying a loser is often the fate of pioneers.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Still proud of her pioneer status, Val bristles at this.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 11 May 2026
  • This team will be viewed as pioneers for a school that had never reached a state championship game in any team sport.
    — Rick Cantu, Austin American Statesman, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Two modern-era selections were made; one pioneer was as well.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2026
  • He is best known as a pioneer for LGBT rights.
    — Steven Sloan, Fortune, 20 May 2026
  • Some of the biggest influencers and pioneers in the art form made their careers here.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, the hard rock and rap pioneers perform as well as the next two most successful names combined.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The black civil rights pioneers didn't see themselves as victims.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • The pioneers of punk music did it because the mainstream crowd hated it.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The Swiss start-up FinalSpark is one of the pioneers in this field.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Superheat is not the pioneer working with this idea.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Your dad Pepe Aguilar was a pioneer for infusing pop with rancheras.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The welcome wagon on their second night as pioneers was a slavering mob.
    — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • So let’s hit the books and take a look at the life of one of Houston’s earliest pioneers.
    — Jhair Romero, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But some early food AI pioneers have already moved on.
    — Barbara Booth, CNBC, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Ben Johnson’s Bears are pioneers in the field of loopy comebacks.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 May 2026

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.
  • Tesla pioneered car doors that open or shut with the push of a button.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Debbie pioneered the whole idea of a teenage pop girl doing her own songs.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Lee was an artist who helped pioneer the field of forensic science.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Hope’s pioneering days are not over.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Goodall was best known for her pioneering studies of chimpanzees in the wild.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2025
  • It’s been unmatched for decades, pioneering all things dance and culture in the area.
    — Carine Lavache, ELLE, 21 July 2023
  • Katharine Hepburn was among the film stars who helped pioneer this pattern.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • India pioneered it on one of the largest irrigation projects in the world.
    — Brittany Peterson and Sibi Arasu, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
  • Keep reading to learn what the ensemble from this pioneering drama has been up to in the last two-plus decades.
    — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 23 May 2026
  • Congrats to those Chinese with thin skins for pioneering this new mode of film import.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Over the past four years Ukraine has pioneered the use of both offensive and defensive drones.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 June 2026
  • Here, too, what was once pioneering and portentous already looks quaint.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Brazilian butt lifts evolved from a derriere-lift surgery pioneered in the mid-1960s.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 6 Mar. 2024
  • And yes, like a lot of pioneering products, many of these things were indeed on Kickstarter.
    — New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2025
  • This was the playbook pioneered by Michael Saylor.
    — Christopher Perkins, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Tesla pioneered the idea of a car that could, like a smartphone, get better over time with digital upgrades.
    — Patrick George, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Jones read tomes that featured accounts of pioneering women and of their attempts to survive and make it through.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The concept of mind as an emergent property of the brain has been pioneered by Christian thinkers.
    — Denis Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Sly and the Family Stone pioneered it.
    — Ahmir “questlove” Thompson, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026
  • The pioneering glam rocker Marc Bolan was a shooting star.
    — Air Mail, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The American way of life has always been about pioneering.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Josh Tavel’s team had pioneered a new and much faster mode of vehicle development.
    — Jon McNeill, Big Think, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Weiss pioneered the idea of genetic circuits, the first of which were based on DNA.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Percy Julian was a research chemist who pioneered the synthesis of medicines from plants.
    — Macie Parker, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • So what's in store for the pioneering folks of Mars' Happy Valley colony?
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • So, what is left of the ultra-discount airline model that Spirit pioneered?
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 11 May 2026

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