All 7 Uses
innovate
in
The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
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- He's still in an odd place, professionally: the most innovative offensive mind of his generation and nobody understands what he's thought up.†
p. 105.7 *innovative = new and different
- It was possible that the running game awaited some innovative coach to figure out how to make it work more efficiently.†
p. 114.1
- As Indianapolis Colts general manager Bill Polian, who sat on the committee to change the rules, puts it, "Innovation drove the rule changes rather than the other way around?'†
p. 116.6innovation = the introduction of something that is new and different; or something that is new and different
- And the 1970s and early 1980s were a golden era for innovation in the passing game.†
p. 116.7
- This was the big difference in Walsh's approach from previous innovators of the passing game: it stripped a lot of the risk out of passing.†
p. 117.6
- A small-college coach named Elmer Berry who had used an innovative passing attack to sneak up and beat bigger schools got so worked up about the anti-pass sentiment that he penned a counterblast, called The Forward Pass in Football.†
p. 120.7innovative = new and different
- After the game, Bill Walsh retired, but his innovation continued to sweep the league in various forms.†
p. 247.9innovation = the introduction of something that is new and different; or something that is new and different
Definitions:
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(1)
(innovate) bring something new to an environment
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)