tone-setter

noun

1. a person or thing that establishes the quality or character that is to be followed subsequently

Example Sentences

It is the tone-setter for the three days of competition.

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But on a day the Dodgers were looking for a tone-setter, and waiting for one of their superstar talents to take the reins, Ohtani delivered another scoreless outing on the mound, giving up one hit and one walk while striking out four.

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Minnesota’s Julius Randle, the first piece of the Lakers’ post-Kobe Bryant plans, looked like the bulldozing tone-setter the team once envisioned when it took him in the first round in 2014.

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It was a huge tone-setter for what he is doing at Manchester United.

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“For me, that’s a tone-setter,” Williams said of the philosophical shift in the rushing attack.

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