groundbreaker
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6.9
- noun
- /ˈɡraʊndˌbreɪkər/
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pionero
- The company's CEO is recognized as a groundbreaker for implementing radical changes that improved productivity.
He was a huge pioneer groundbreaker and did it great.
- He was a huge pioneer groundbreaker and did it great.
Examples
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While The Buggles were far from being groundbreakers and even farther from becoming legitimate prophets, there was at least a sense of believable dialogue when that song originally aired.
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She was a true groundbreaker in the field of renewable energy, introducing innovative technologies to harness solar power.
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Women Groundbreakers in the First International Courts
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He was a huge pioneer groundbreaker and did it great.
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And what the groundbreakers who went before us did was to take roto inversion as the operation to survive.
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ALL OF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY INSIDE OF YOU TO BE A GROUNDBREAKER.
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It was so unacceptable as a part of discourse that books and organizations that brought it out in the open as anything but mental illness were groundbreakers.
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Their consistent record as groundbreakers in the design field alone is enough to garner them a cult following; their technological advances simply cement their followers to whatever amazing product they will release next.
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Or groundbreakers who furthered country but favored other forms, like Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Wanda Jackson, and Carl Perkins?
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The unwieldy final product, "We Can't Go Home Again" (1976), bombed at the Cannes Film Festival, but it's the kind of would-be groundbreaker that continues to stir interest long after its failure as a theatrical release.
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Synonyms
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4.2
A person among the first to develop new ideas or ways of doing things
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4.3
A person who creates new ideas or ways of doing things
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6.8
A person who first develops new ideas or methods in a field
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6.7
A person who does something new that others copy
A person who is among the first to try new ideas or methods
A person who is among the first to try new ideas
A person who is among the first to begin a new activity or idea
Antonyms
How Innovative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Groundbreaker comes from the image of someone who breaks ground: moving the ground ('earth') to start a building, which turned into a phrase meaning to 'start something new'. That's why a groundbreaker is a person who opens new paths or ideas.