Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that opens a path or trail.
- noun One that is original or innovative; a pioneer.
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- noun A person who carries out
pathbreaking work.
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Examples
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Instead, he chose young men who, in his judgment, were capable of handling the pressure of being a pathbreaker.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Instead, he chose young men who, in his judgment, were capable of handling the pressure of being a pathbreaker.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Instead, he chose young men who, in his judgment, were capable of handling the pressure of being a pathbreaker.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Instead, he chose young men who, in his judgment, were capable of handling the pressure of being a pathbreaker.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Tova Sanhadray, chairwoman of the Emunah organization and the first woman member of the Knesset to represent the National Religious Party, is regarded as a pathbreaker, since she began her public activity in Israel at a time when the participation of religious women in public life was not yet considered acceptable.
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As a successful director who often works outside the Hollywood studio system, Silver has been a pathbreaker.
Joan Micklin Silver. 2009
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It's fitting that one of the most important independent films of all time would be a pathbreaker in digitally projected and transported films.
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As to the Mayor's modus operandi, I told Bruck that I thought he was the finest power politician I had seen in many years, that he was capable of amazing multi-tasking, that he was a progressive Latino pathbreaker and civil rights leader who might actually go "all the way."
Tom Hayden: The New Yorker's Profiling of Antonio Villaraigosa 2008
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The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas was a pathbreaker here, deliberately launching a major suicide-bombing offensive in 1996 to tilt a round of upcoming Israeli elections toward the hard-line Likud Party, thereby undermining the Oslo peace process that could have ended the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, over the long haul, put Hamas out of business.
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Sosa is a pathbreaker, already perhaps the most recognizable Latino star America has known.
Sosa's Streak 2008
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