Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That innovates or has a tendency to innovate: as, innovatory ideas in politics.
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- adjective Producing
new ideas or products
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Examples
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Don't listen to the murmurings of late that Dragon Age: Origins is some kind of innovatory departure from traditional fantasy.
DriverHeaven.net 2009
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Jamaican music was quickest to pick up the new mood of black America, and add its own innovatory ideas to create reggae.
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Camden Arts Centre, NW1, to 25 SepSSOne of the big innovatory breakthroughs of early-20th century art resulted from three or four irreverent individuals cutting out fragments of photographic scraps and sticking them together in outlandish combinations.
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Jamaican music was quickest to pick up the new mood of black America, and add its own innovatory ideas to create reggae.
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The study is based on an innovatory "multidimensional poverty index", or MPI, developed by specialists at Oxford.
More of world's poor live in India than in all sub-Saharan Africa, says study 2010
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The point is that those composers we remember as particularly important, or influential, or innovatory — that's as much a fortuitous accident of time and place as it is the force of individual creativity.
Archive 2007-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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In other words, even if Buxtehude was more adventurous, more innovatory than Bach, Bach became the more important composer because he was lucky enough to live at a time uniquely suited to his formidable genius.
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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I don't know if Bux really was that innovatory in musical elements when you compare him to Orlando di Lasso, Cipriano de Rore, or Carlo Gesualdo, whose musical grammar is in a way similar to Buxtehude's.
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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The point is that those composers we remember as particularly important, or influential, or innovatory — that's as much a fortuitous accident of time and place as it is the force of individual creativity.
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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In other words, even if Buxtehude was more adventurous, more innovatory than Bach, Bach became the more important composer because he was lucky enough to live at a time uniquely suited to his formidable genius.
Archive 2007-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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