groundbreaking
the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
of or relating to such a ceremony.
originating or pioneering a new endeavor, field of inquiry, or the like: Pasteur's groundbreaking work in bacteriology.
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How to use groundbreaking in a sentence
While Nobel prizes are often granted for work done decades ago—that’s typically how long it takes for a finding to prove to be truly groundbreaking for the field—Doudna and Charpentier made these contributions just a few years ago.
Two women just won the Nobel Prize for their work on the gene-editing technique CRISPR | Claire Maldarelli | October 7, 2020 | Popular-ScienceDoudna’s groundbreaking paper on CRISPR was published in 2012, and Oakes immediately saw the potential, so he joined her lab at Berkeley.
Scribe Therapeutics launches a platform for engineering CRISPR-based therapeutics | Darrell Etherington | October 6, 2020 | TechCrunchAdding a time element to data content may not seem groundbreaking, but it can be overlooked when hunting for takeaways.
How to create compelling content based on existing data | Claire Cole | September 22, 2020 | Search Engine WatchMeanwhile, China is spending billions of dollars of its own and publishing groundbreaking experiments headed by its leading scientific light, the quantum physicist Pan Jianwei.
IBM plans a huge leap in superfast quantum computing by 2023 | rhhackettfortune | September 15, 2020 | FortunePat Brown is a long-time Stanford biomedical researcher who’s done groundbreaking work in genetics.
It marked a groundbreaking moment in how the country viewed Jews, especially Jewish women.
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America? | Emily Shire | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTShe is groundbreaking on the problem of methane leaks in natural-gas fracking, an exception that swallows the rule.
Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’ Will Change Nothing | Michael Signer | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe ABC comedy, while still entertaining, stopped being groundbreaking long ago, and serves largely as comedy comfort food.
Stop Hating on ‘Modern Family’ (But Also Stop Giving It Emmys) | Jason Lynch | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis is number four on my list, and it is politically groundbreaking.
Wake Up, Republicans: Hillary Clinton’s Machine Can Crush You | Myra Adams | September 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe lab has amassed over 60,000 DNA samples and pioneered some groundbreaking scientific advances.
This was a time of many innovations and groundbreaking scientific theories.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai Nadin
British Dictionary definitions for ground-breaking
innovative: a ground-breaking novel
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