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An example use of pioneer in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… life and Cunningham a pioneer of dance …”
Pioneer means a person who leads or is the first in a field or activity.
the word pioneer occurs in english on average 6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that pioneer can be often used in the following areas:
1) people, society, and culture;