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groundbreaking

[ground-brey-king] / ˈgraʊndˌbreɪ kɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
pioneering
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That project also produced a groundbreaking 2022 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

“This will be a place where memories are made, where music brings people together and where our city shows up on the big stage,” he said during a January groundbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

He joined Kleiner in 1980 as a partner and has backed a long list of groundbreaking founders, including those at Alphabet’s Google and at Amazon.com.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

It requires extreme faith in the opposite catcher, as much as it does for the individual flipping multiple times over — they even recorded the groundbreaking stunt for posterity’s sake, along with other home videos.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

But Ernest’s extroverted enthusiasm and the opportunity to be in on a groundbreaking discovery carried him along, for the moment.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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