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ground-breaking

British  

adjective

  1. innovative

    a ground-breaking novel

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While Indian restaurants are now a staple of UK life, when Veeraswamy opened it was among the ground-breaking pioneers.

From BBC

I also get compliments and requests for writing sophisticated and ground-breaking papers on blood disorders.

From The Wall Street Journal

But a series of ground-breaking scientific developments in the 2010s by Prof David Nutt and his team at Imperial College London began a process that may well end up changing that.

From BBC

He's already writing the second instalment of the series, and plans are under way to develop a video game, for which he promises the visuals are ground-breaking.

From BBC

Anna-Louise Bates, who chose to donate her seven-year-old's organs when he died in a car crash along with his father, said it was "ground-breaking in Wales to be the first to adopt the soft opt-out, but everyone is still not educated in what that actually means".

From BBC