groundbreaker

Example Sentences

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Wallace seeks to be known as a championship driver along with a groundbreaker.

From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Another groundbreaker is the poet and novelist Ana Castillo and her border classic “So Far From God.”

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2023

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

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

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2022

Her appeal as a sympathetic groundbreaker is what drives audiences to roar at her entrance onstage, before she’s even danced a step.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2022