pathbreaking

American  

[path-brey-king, pahth-] / ˈpæθˌbreɪ kɪŋ, ˈpɑθ- /

adjective

1. pertaining to blazing a trail or path.

2. pioneering; innovative.

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Example Sentences

A pathbreaking European banking merger is meanwhile gathering steam.

From Barron's

Judy Pace, a pathbreaking model and star of blaxploitation films who appeared in television shows through the 1960s and ’70s and the hit made-for-TV movie “Brian’s Song,” died last week.

From Los Angeles Times

Judy Pace, a pathbreaking model and star of “blaxploitation” films who appeared in television shows through the 1960s and ’70s and the hit made-for-TV movie “Brian’s Song,” died last week at age 83.

From Los Angeles Times

I spoke to three additional researchers who lauded the Johns Hopkins team for its pathbreaking work.

From The Wall Street Journal

Boritt’s first book, 1978’s “Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream,” praised as “pathbreaking” in The Wall Street Journal, argued that a key to understanding Lincoln was his conviction, fundamentally more economic than moral, that all men must be furnished with an opportunity to improve their lives and benefit from their own labor—“the right to rise,” as Boritt termed it.

From The Wall Street Journal