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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of innovate.

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Examples

  • Is it really so obvious now that the hospital and economy is better off having 'innovated' away the low skilled job with a system of robots?

    The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • It is that kind of innovated "fresh look" tactical approach to problems that makes Obama such a compelling candidate.

    Hillary-Backer Evan Bayh: Super-Delegates Should Back Hillary Because Of Electoral College 2009

  • And Goldman Sachs executives pass out multi-million-dollar checks to the wizards who 'innovated' an ingenious way for the rest of their country to commit financial suicide.

    Scott Thill: Why We Are Totally Screwed 2008

  • It is very often the case that small business start ups who belive they have "innovated" something new walk into my office and beg for help in writing up a patent because they are frightened to death that MS will simply rip them off.

    Patent Abuse glyn moody 2007

  • Since that time I have been more venturous, and I find now that others do not scruple to use it as well as I. [Just what Descartes did. He 'innovated' prior to 1637, when he took Hariot's well recognized notation in algebra to work out his problems in geometry for which Hariot himself would have thanked him.]

    Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885

  • But the part the credulous Friedman really gulped down was that bit about how Denmark "innovated" thanks to tax hikes then gave some of the money back to allow people to afford the miracle energy innovations, which-you should recall even if left unsaid by Espersen and her interlocutor-were so miraculous and innovative that they had to be mandated.

    Energy Tribune 2010

  • In the last couple of years, ISPs "innovated" by changing how they handle users who type in a

    Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds. 2010

  • Nah, they'll just steal them like everything else they've ever "innovated".

    MacDailyNews 2010

  • Nah, they'll just steal them like everything else they've ever "innovated".

    MacDailyNews webmaster@macdailynews.com 2010

  • But the part the credulous Friedman really gulped down was that bit about how Denmark "innovated" thanks to tax hikes then gave some of the money back to allow people to afford the miracle energy innovations, which-you should recall even if left unsaid by Espersen and her interlocutor-were so miraculous and innovative that they had to be mandated.

    Energy Tribune 2010

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