adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pioneering research (= research that produces completely new information )
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Watson did pioneering research on the long-term effects of dieting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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days
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Somehow it all seems a bit of an anticlimax after the bold legends of fax's pioneering days .
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The pioneering days are all but over.
effort
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The book was a pioneering effort and has all the faults, as well as the merits, of such an enterprise.
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Both movements were to retain a considerable presence in West Ham, and influence pioneering efforts to develop labour representation.
study
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These pioneering studies suggested that biliary secretion might be regulated by both vagal and non-vagal neural mechanisms.
work
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To publicise his pioneering work Shearman produced an excellent leaflet on the scheme and its potentialities.
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The award recognises Prof MacFarlane's pioneering work in computing and control theory.
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The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period.
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Throughout his career Little continued his pioneering work .
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Edwin Sutherland's famous pioneering work in 1940 produced evidence that white-collar crime might be substantially underestimated in official criminal statistics.
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Critique followed hot on the heels of this pioneering work .
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Jo's pioneering work has changed the way people view their own worlds, and articulate their own experiences.
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Pioneering research shows that the experiences of childhood help form the brain's circuits for music and maths, language and emotion.
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Cowley's pioneering development of modern emergency medicine helped save countless lives.
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Her pioneering work in the field of education will be remembered.
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Moore's pioneering work on semiconductors has made him perhaps the most famous figure in Silicon Valley.
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the pioneering jazz pianist Bud Powell
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the pioneering work of Caventou in drug research
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Edward Said's pioneering Orientalism offered a searching analysis of this phenomenon.
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In the event the experiment was perhaps one of the more useful of the pioneering experiments with controlled thermonuclear research.
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The award recognises Prof MacFarlane's pioneering work in computing and control theory.
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The book was a pioneering effort and has all the faults, as well as the merits, of such an enterprise.
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The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period.
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Throughout his career Little continued his pioneering work.
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Vertical packages tend to be of a pioneering nature, whereas horizontal packages tend to result from the development of existing ideas.