innovated
past simple and past participle ofinnovate
innovate
verb[I]
uk/ˈɪn.ə.veɪt/us/ˈɪn.ə.veɪt/tointroducechangesand newideas:
Thefashionindustryis alwaysdesperateto innovate.
Inventing, designing and innovation
- absorptive capacity
- architect
- artificer
- bionics
- blueprint
- design
- designer
- devise
- dreamsomethingup
- ergonomic
- nanotechnology
- non-imitative
- operational research
- originator
- out-design
- science park
- think outside the boxidiom
- thinksomethingup
- trailblaze
- wind tunnel
Examplesofinnovated
innovated
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Theyinnovatedwords which are historical evidence of the lessons they learned.
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In doing so, the students drew from andinnovatedwith the existing repertoire of collective action.
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Early movement activity drew upon andinnovatedwith traditional repertoire staples such as the round table discussion, the march, and the public pronouncement.
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In propagation, copying plays no role since speakers make a choice between theinnovatedform and the old variant.
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It must be the case that the common patterns either areinnovatedmore often, or survive better from generation to generation.
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The production technology beinginnovated, whether livestock, annuals, or perennials, is a determining factor of the impact innovation has on deforestation.
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This paper will also examine a second category of cognate vocabulary,innovatedvocabulary, which does not possess regular sound correspondences.
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One must avoid falsely reifying ' the rural community ' by offering specific examples of reciprocal interactions that farmers have perpetuated andinnovatedin the face of market-formation.
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Speakers whoinnovatedthe form orangutang after hearing orangutan would have constructed a lexical entry that does not generate the surface form they were exposed to.
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Memory management is one area in which we have notinnovated.
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Therefore, we haveinnovatedproposals as to how to achieve that; but, from the party opposite, we have nothing.
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Those people are willing to risk their energies and devote their resources to proving that new services can beinnovated.
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In the past, local government hasinnovatedagainst the odds.
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Parochial church councils wereinnovatedfor administrative reasons.
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He thusinnovatedmany string-bending styles on the guitar, simulating a pedal steel guitar.
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- teardrop
- tear duct
- Teare's disease
- teare-s-disease
- tearful
- tearfully
- tearfulness
- tear gas
- tear-gas
- tear-hair-out
- tear-heart-out
- tear-into
- tear into sb/sth
- tear-into-sb-sth
- tear into something
- tear into sth
- tear-into-sth
- tearjerker
- tear off
- tear-off
- tear-off
- tea room
- tea-room
- tear/rip sb/sth to shreds
- tear-rip-sb-sth-to-shreds