groundbreaker

Example Sentences

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“Louis was a groundbreaker, a brilliant, kind man, and an incendiary presence on screen. Each of us was lucky to have him.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2024

Wallace seeks to be known as a championship driver along with a groundbreaker.

From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Another groundbreaker is the poet and novelist Ana Castillo and her border classic “So Far From God.”

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2023

How do you measure the legacy of someone who is a groundbreaker?

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2022

And the expectation that the title of groundbreaker engenders can weigh down a movie, sometimes fatally.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021