pathbreaking

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• 35 Like Jane Collier's pathbreaking article in the early 1970s, they have shown that family decisions were not necessarily made in the best interests of all members.

  Academic text (1992)

• In his pathbreaking article, Professor Levinson wrote that the Second Amendment is "profoundly embarrassing" to many students of the Constitution.

  Academic text (2000)

• The research is valuable and pathbreaking work (some of the groups involved are people I know from my own department, and they do fine work).

  Blog text (18)

• In No Separate Refuge, a pathbreaking study of Mexican-Hispanic society on the Southwest frontier, Sarah Deutsch has documented the major role women played in maintaining the culture and structure of the regional community until the policies of the federal government during the New Deal undermined their position.

  Academic text (1992)

• Phillips mentions that Charles Leonhard, whose pathbreaking chapter on the philosophy of music education in his 1959 Foundations and Principles of Music Education was so influential on subsequent philosophical work, including my own, has recently expressed his misgivings that "the concept of aesthetic education would come to be used as the major tenet in the justification of music education."

  Academic text (1993)

• This largely fictive construct has been definitively put to rest by Robert Herbert's pathbreaking article of 1979 that argued for Monet as a deliberate, reflective, and methodical creator.

  Academic text (2015)

• In developing this reading, Scarth builds on Debra Bergoffen's earlier, pathbreaking work, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities.

  Academic text (2005)

• The scientist's pathbreaking research has opened new avenues in renewable energy technology.

• The pathbreaking exhibition featured innovative artists who challenged traditional boundaries in modern art.

Synonyms

G

groundbreaking

vspathbreaking

57 5.1

New ideas or methods that change how something is done

is about introducing important new methods generally rather than calling them major

T

trailblazing

vspathbreaking

1 5.6

Introducing new ideas or methods that change a field

emphasizes new important ideas rather than an adventurous style

I

innovatory

vspathbreaking

7.2

Introducing new ideas or ways of doing things

focuses on introducing important new ideas rather than merely favoring them

Antonyms

C

conventional

175 2.8

Doing things in the usual way most people expect, not new or original

U

unoriginal

8 3.4

Not new or creative like ideas you have heard before

How Innovative

revolutionary

103 5.2

pathbreaking

6.3

innovative

165 5.5

original

250 3.6

conventional

175 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology