ground-breaking

British

adjective

innovative

a ground-breaking novel

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Ground breaking tests on samples of bone narrowed down Adam's birthplace to a strip of land around Benin City in southern Nigeria - Joyce Osagiede's home city.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2021

Ground breaking will take place just after the club hosts the Senior PGA Championship in 2019.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 3, 2017

Ground breaking is scheduled for late this year, with a design by Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2013

Ground breaking has just begun for the new home of SFJAZZ, the leading jazz presenter in San Francisco and one of the most important in the United States.

From Chicago Tribune • May 16, 2011

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