groundbreaker
Example Sentences
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The original 1993 Broadway musical, with its flying Tommy and galloping pinball machine, was a visual groundbreaker, warmed by excellent performances.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024
Roz Wyman, a groundbreaker herself — in 1953, at 22, she became the youngest person ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council — once reflected on Molina’s “firsts.”
From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
