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
In 1921 he fashioned a pathbreaking reorganization of Goodyear, but the plan put Dillon in control while sticking the manufacturer with high interest payments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Sir Jony worked for Apple for more than 30 years, helping to revive the company with pathbreaking products including the iPhone and iPod.
From BBC • May 21, 2025
Baldwin’s writing about race and American society was always entwined with love stories, from his pathbreaking 1956 LGBTQ+ novel “Giovanni’s Room” to his late classic, 1974’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025
In a volley of pathbreaking papers published between 1986 and 1990, Nüsslein-Volhard and her colleagues definitively identified several of the factors that provide the signal for “headness” and “tailness” in the embryo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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