pathbreaking
Americanadjective
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pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
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pioneering; innovative.
Example Sentences
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A pathbreaking European banking merger is meanwhile gathering steam.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
Judy Pace, a pathbreaking model and star of blaxploitation films who appeared in television shows through the 1960s and ’70s and the hit made-for-TV movie “Brian’s Song,” died last week.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
I spoke to three additional researchers who lauded the Johns Hopkins team for its pathbreaking work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
There has been no great frisson of ideas, no proud democratic exercise, no pathbreaking consensus.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2024
Einstein’s earlier pathbreaking work on the photoelectric effect suggested strongly that light was composed of a stream of “light quanta,” or particles.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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