groundbreaker

Example Sentences

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“He really was the groundbreaker,” Ms. Holtzman said in a phone interview.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

She was an icon, a template, a groundbreaker, an ice breaker, a ball breaker, a trailblazer, a ball of fire, the most delicate, feminine truck driver/dominatrix to ever leave an audience spent.

From Los Angeles Times

A new director, Alan Solomon, arrived in 1962 determined to make the museum a groundbreaker in introducing what he called “the new art,” and he didn’t waste a minute.

From New York Times

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