ground-breaking
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- adjective
- /ˈɡraʊndˌbreɪkɪŋ/
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innovador
- The author's ground-breaking research introduced a completely new perspective on climate change.
I mean, the aesthetic, the service, it's ground breaking.
- I mean, the aesthetic, the service, it's ground breaking.
- No, it's been actually a gradual build up, but we or I believe that we're ground breaking in what we're doing.
- Instead of getting all black, I would get this love in sports set ground breaking.
- I mean, what those guys do It's yeah, ground breaking, you know, I mean, it's.
Examples
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New Girl was a ground breaking series in its seven seasons on air and continues to attract new fans who are binging it and influence the comedy genre today.
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Among the most commonly cited investigations before the 1980s is Howard Tuckman's (1978) ground-breaking study on the diversity of employment experiences and an accompanying taxonomy of part-timers.
Academic text (1996) -
And now getting to that leads to some really ground breaking new things.
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And it was a ground breaking exhibition.
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And it's a ground breaking story to learn how to talk to whales.
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And then lift designers made some small but ground breaking changes.
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This is ground-breaking work, sir.
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In developing the ground-breaking marketing approach which connects the inspirational content of Gilbert's book with a variety of products, EPL marketers have indeed made consumption meaningful for many women.
Academic text (2014) -
The discovery of the vaccine was a ground-breaking advancement in medical science.
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The launch of the electric car represented a ground-breaking moment in sustainable technology.
Synonyms
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4.4
A ceremony that marks the start of construction by digging the first bit of soil
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An event that marks the start of building work, often with people turning the first soil
An event that marks the official start of building work
Causing big change with new important ideas or methods
Antonyms
How Innovative
Surface Forms
Morphology
ground-breaking = ground + break (semi-transparent) = ground + break + ing
The components 'ground' + 'break' are form-meaningful, but the fixed phrase 'breaking ground' referring to a ceremonial start (and its extended sense 'innovative') is a specialized/metaphorical usage not fully predictable for all learners.
Etymology
Ground-breaking comes from the ceremony of actually breaking the ground to start a building. So, just like opening new land, ground-breaking now means 'introducing new ideas' or being 'very new and original'.