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groundbreaker

[graund-bray-ker] / ˈgraʊndˌbreɪ kər /


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“Louis was a groundbreaker, a brilliant, kind man, and an incendiary presence on screen. Each of us was lucky to have him.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

Sidney Poitier was another groundbreaker, though in an utterly different realm.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

The show already had proved a groundbreaker at this year’s Screen Actors Guild, where Lee and Jung received the first guild acting trophies for a non-English language show.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

How do you measure the legacy of someone who is a groundbreaker?

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2022

And the expectation that the title of groundbreaker engenders can weigh down a movie, sometimes fatally.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021


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