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pioneering

[ pahy-uh-neer-ing ]

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adjective

being a pioneer, one of the first to settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others:
This early pioneering family helped open up western Victoria in Australia.
being among the first in any field of inquiry or activity; being among those spearheading an initiative of some kind:
Ours is a pioneering institution, continually advancing the understanding of medicine through groundbreaking research.
Ecology. (of an organism) successfully establishing itself in a barren area, thus starting an ecological cycle of life:
Pioneering species can initiate recovery on drastically disturbed sites like that of the former gas plant.

the act or process of being a pioneer; the early settling of land, or the first forays into some type of activity:
I read about that forward-thinking doctor in an article on the pioneering of in vitro fertilization.

First recorded in 1700–10; pioneer ( def ) + -ing ²( def ) for the adjective senses; pioneer ( def ) + -ing ¹( def ) for the noun sense

I think they could learn something from their pioneering forebear.

Violence against women continues to plague Turkey, and a pioneering new female political party blames Erdogan's machismo.

The pioneering geographer Bernard Nietschmann once contended “more indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns.”

A pioneering photographer in the 1950s, Bunny Yeager discovered the iconic Bettie Page and helped establish pin-ups.

Veteran illustrator Howard Brodie was on the case, pioneering the rising art form.

Interplanetary commerce, if and when it begins, will be fraught with all of the dangers that accompany pioneering expeditions.

Men cherished easy mental ruts grooved by the unprogressive centuries; pioneering paths were only for the few.

Language could scarcely overstate the enormous precedence of Spain over all other nations in the pioneering of the New World.

Then while she preserved, canned, and pickled them, there was little time to long for pioneering in the West.

There had been, however, a measure of pioneering in several of these directions.

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