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Recent Examples of Synonyms for groundbreakers
Noun
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Pop culture has been so stuck in a mode of romanticizing pioneers and settlers that American Primeval, with its insistence on diving into Mormon history and rejecting the idea that violence in the name of gaining power is justified, feels like a balancing of the scales.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025 -
But now, the blues pioneers who inspired him — King, Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Guitar Slim, and so many more — are long gone, as are many who learned from him, from Jeff Beck to Vaughan.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
30 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In a statement, the company praised the Pentagon’s efforts to open the acquisition process to commercial innovators.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Dec. 2025
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On Columbia’s grounds, this posse of basketball innovators was set to create an evolved way of quantifying the game.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Groundbreakers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groundbreakers. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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