record-breaking
adjective
: better, greater, higher, etc., than any other in the past : beyond any previous record
a record-breaking high jump
The outdoor concert drew a record-breaking crowd to the park.
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Trafalgar Releasing has a long history of distributing BTS content, including record-breaking concert films and live event broadcasts.
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Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 24 June 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Yet as communities from the Eastern Seaboard to the Midwest are engulfed in record-breaking temperatures, the U.S. is now even more dangerously unprepared.
—Kathy Baughman McLeod, Time, 24 June 2025
The tour aptly takes it name from Brandy and Monica’s iconic 1998 hit, which spent a record-breaking 13 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 24 June 2025
Your zip code in retirement may matter more than your portfolio, compelling many of us to ask, ‘What’s your retirement weather forecast?’
Retiring Into the Heat
Despite record-breaking temperatures, retirees are still moving—or staying put—in America’s hottest and most weather-vulnerable regions.
—Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
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Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 24 June 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Yet as communities from the Eastern Seaboard to the Midwest are engulfed in record-breaking temperatures, the U.S. is now even more dangerously unprepared.
—Kathy Baughman McLeod, Time, 24 June 2025
The tour aptly takes it name from Brandy and Monica’s iconic 1998 hit, which spent a record-breaking 13 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 24 June 2025
Your zip code in retirement may matter more than your portfolio, compelling many of us to ask, ‘What’s your retirement weather forecast?’
Retiring Into the Heat
Despite record-breaking temperatures, retirees are still moving—or staying put—in America’s hottest and most weather-vulnerable regions.
—Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for record-breaking
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“Record-breaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/record-breaking. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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