groundwork

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At Ulm in the early 1990s, Rangnick was laying the groundwork for a tactical revolution in German football as one of the first managers to introduce zonal marking.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

In the months ahead, he must lay the groundwork for consensus between nearly 200 nations even as the war rattles energy markets, nations scramble for fuel supply and climate change slips down the priority list.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Yale economist Robert Shiller has been widely credited with laying much of the theoretical groundwork for perpetual futures.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

“Tomorrow, Nick will begin meeting with staff across the organization to listen, learn, discuss what is working, identify opportunities for growth, and begin laying the groundwork for Season 59 and beyond,” Cibrowski and Weiss wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

“What Resilience discovered on his mission has laid the groundwork for us to continue imagining what it might look like for a human to land on Mars.”

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga