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  • noun Plural form of pioneer.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pioneer.

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  • Kelly: In Bonk you offer the reader a very interesting rundown of the history of what you call the pioneers of human sexual response.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Kelly: In Bonk you offer the reader a very interesting rundown of the history of what you call the pioneers of human sexual response.

    Mary Roach: Author of Bonk 2009

  • The site also profiles two pioneers from the museum's past, explorer Delia Akeley (1875-1970) who discovered new African animal species, and botanist Margery Carlson (1892-1985) who collected plant samples in South America and Europe and was a professor of botany at Northwestern.

    Field Museum's Women in Science Peggy 2007

  • The site also profiles two pioneers from the museum's past, explorer Delia Akeley (1875-1970) who discovered new African animal species, and botanist Margery Carlson (1892-1985) who collected plant samples in South America and Europe and was a professor of botany at Northwestern.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Peggy 2007

  • Roland Barthes, one of the structuralist pioneers, is particularly revealing here.

    What you see is what you get? Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • Health and medical technology is steeped in pioneers who researched under possible penalty and even death under Church edicts.

    Think Progress » Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks ‘Are You Going To Kill Me?’ 2006

  • In the course of an account of the influence of "the twin pioneers of transatlantic revivalism," John Wesley and Jonathon

    Introduction: A History of Transatlantic Romanticism 2006

  • Roland Barthes, one of the structuralist pioneers, is particularly revealing here.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • The dependency of any one person's research on the labors of scores of earlier scientific pioneers is illustrated very beautifully by a few sentences of this variation from a book by Olive Schreiner, written at the turn of the century, entitled, "The Story of an African Farm."

    Alan G. MacDiarmid - Autobiography 2001

  • Now, he got that money, of course, from Washington lobbyists, primarily, a group of 400 people he calls his pioneers, each of whom are pledged to go out and raise $100,000 apiece for him.

    CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Political Humorist Jim Hightower Discusses Campaign 2000 - February 5, 2000 2000

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  • In the Soviet Union, a virtually obligatory organization for children and teenagers intended to provide them with fun and educational activities, including a hefty dose of Communist indoctrination. Their emblematic dress included a bright red kerchief. When they reached college age, they entered the Komsomol.

    August 26, 2008