Meaning & use
always innovating
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Meanings
phrasefixed phrase
Continuously introducing new ideas, methods, or products rather than staying with what already exists.
Grammar: Used after a linking verb or before a noun: a company that is always innovating; an always-innovating team.
Patterns
- be always innovating
- an always-innovating company
- keep always innovating
The company is always innovating, so its products rarely look the same two years in a row.
She describes her lab as always innovating, even when the money for research is tight.
An always-innovating brand can confuse customers if it changes too quickly.
phrasefixed phraseapproving
Used to describe someone who keeps finding fresh ways of doing things at work or in a hobby.
Grammar: Often follows be or stay and refers to a person or group, not to a single action.
Patterns
- stay always innovating
- someone is always innovating
Their small design studio stays always innovating by testing one new tool every month.
He is always innovating in the kitchen, mixing flavors nobody expects.
Common combinations
- always innovating in
- The firm is always innovating in the way it packages its food.
- always innovating to stay ahead
- Retailers are always innovating to stay ahead of online rivals.
- an always-innovating culture
- Managers say an always-innovating culture attracts younger workers.
- keep always innovating
- The challenge is to keep always innovating without exhausting the staff.
- always innovating and improving
- The team is always innovating and improving its service.
Synonyms and how they differ
- pioneering
- Pioneering suggests being the first to do something important, while always innovating stresses doing it again and again over time.
- inventive
- Inventive describes a natural ability to think of new things, whereas always innovating describes ongoing activity, not a personal quality.
- forward-thinking
- Forward-thinking is about having modern attitudes, which is weaker than always innovating, since it does not require actually producing anything new.
Opposites
Word family
- innovate verb
- to introduce a new idea, method, or product
- innovation noun
- a new idea or method, or the act of introducing one
- innovative adjective
- new and original in thinking or design
- innovator noun
- a person who introduces new ideas or methods
Commonly confused: always innovating or renovating? always innovating or always renovating?
always innovating vs renovating
Renovating means repairing and updating a building or room, so it is about restoring something old, not creating something new.
always innovating vs always renovating
This sounds similar but means repairing all the time; compare "a hotel that is always innovating" with "a hotel that is always renovating."
Practice
Which sentence uses "always innovating" correctly?
Choose one answer.
"Always innovating" describes an ongoing activity of a person or group, so a team that keeps solving problems in new ways fits. Option 0 wrongly applies it to a bridge, which cannot introduce new ideas, and option 2 drops the verb be, which the phrase needs after a subject.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “always innovating”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.