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as in pioneer
a person or group that originates new concepts, styles, and techniques
The Beatles are recognized as some of the greatest trailblazers of rock music.
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as in colonist
a person who settles in a new region
The Mayflower brought with it a group of European trailblazers, determined to make a home of that land dubbed "New England."
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Recent Examples of trailblazer
Photo courtesy of Ogee Sephora is welcoming an organic beauty trailblazer to its prestige roster.
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Dahvi Shira,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
Westside Square was a trailblazer in food truck parks in Hartford.
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Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
11 June 2026
And Knight joins a team headed by one of women’s hockey’s trailblazers in GM Manon Rheaume.
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John Wawrow,
Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2026
Moon was a trailblazer and iconoclast.
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Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
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Dahvi Shira,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
Westside Square was a trailblazer in food truck parks in Hartford.
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Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
11 June 2026
And Knight joins a team headed by one of women’s hockey’s trailblazers in GM Manon Rheaume.
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John Wawrow,
Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2026
Moon was a trailblazer and iconoclast.
—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trailblazer
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The Berliners are well known in the business world through Amy’s Kitchen, the organic-food pioneer that helped bring natural and vegetarian frozen meals into mainstream grocery aisles.
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German physicist Max Planck was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, earning the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of quanta.
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The sultan learned about the American colonists’ war for independence indirectly, through the local French consul and European reports.
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Those groups, and more recent successors, drew on strains of conspiracy theory-minded thinking that go back to the American Revolution, when many colonists believed that a corrupt British elite was plotting to strip them of their traditional liberties.
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Corneliani updated its sartorial proposition via functional details befitting a very dapper explorer.
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Design practices Not knowing ahead of time what lunar explorers may face is an unsure, shuddering proposition.
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“Trailblazer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trailblazer. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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