Sample Sentences for
innovate
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    We need fresh ideas and innovative solutions.
    innovative = new and different
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    ...no one has any really innovative thoughts.  (source)
    innovative = new and creative
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    Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation.  (source)
    innovation = things that are new
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    "Yes, of course," said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.  (source)
    innovation = something that is new and different
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Sometimes he was fully prepared for the enemy's innovations; sometimes he was not.†  (source)
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    Thomas helped Newt distribute the weapons, and even more innovative ones were created in their desperation to be prepared for the Grievers.  (source)
    innovative = new and different
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    She knew from some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players.†  (source)
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    Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.  (source)
    innovator = someone who brings something new to an environment
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    He loved the evenings, when the day's work was done and he was free to experiment, innovate, and create fine works of art.†  (source)
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    He'd been innovating extensively.†  (source)
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    Louisiana had been a State for less than three years, but outnumbered Americans innovated, outnumbered Americans used the tactics of the frontier to defeat a veteran British force trained in the strategy of the Napoleonic wars.†  (source)
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    The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth.†  (source)
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    Apparently, we were the only unit within the prison where this had happened, and the only reason anyone in power even believed it was because when our cells were tossed, the COs confiscated the shampoo bottles and milk containers and even plastic bags that we had all innovatively used to store some extra wine before it had run dry; and because swabs taken in the pipes revealed a matching substance.†  (source)
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