ground-breaking
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating for over three decades and continues to make ground-breaking discoveries that shape our fundamental understanding of the universe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony in Sinaloa, Johnson said, “We may soon see significant action on this front. So, stay tuned.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
China's freestyle skiing superstar Eileen Gu aims for her elusive first title of the Winter Olympics as Norwegian Johannes Klaebo kicked off Saturday's action with his ground-breaking sixth gold of the Milan-Cortina Games.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
But formal diplomatic relations between the Jewish state and the guardian of Islam’s two holiest sites would represent a ground-breaking change in Mideast politics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
It must be conceded that for a long time before Laennec, the great man of medicine, those to whom medical science owed its ground-breaking work did not belong to France.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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