The phrase "a groundbreaking effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an initiative or project that is innovative and has the potential to create significant change or impact.
Example: "The researchers' findings represent a groundbreaking effort in the field of renewable energy."
Alternatives: "a revolutionary endeavor" or "an innovative undertaking".
The map is the product of a groundbreaking effort to identify where care should be focused.
Current, meanwhile, began as a groundbreaking effort to promote user-generated content, and settled into a more conventional format of political talk television with a liberal bent.
Following the lead of their counterparts in the United States, Japan's central bankers announced Tuesday what they called a groundbreaking effort to reinvigorate the country's long-moribund economy and defeat deflation.
However, campaigners now fear that Zimbabwe will be let off in a move that could permanently damage the credibility of what was a groundbreaking effort to break the link between gems and violent conflict in Africa.
The agencies used both legal and technical methods, some of them unorthodox, in what they described as a groundbreaking effort to dismantle the so-called botnet, known as Coreflood.
It represented a groundbreaking effort to use public sector funds and authority, together with foundation capital, to leverage hundreds of millions of dollars in loan capital from private lenders.
The groundbreaking effort to provide an iPad to every Los Angeles student, teacher and school administrator was beset by inadequate planning, a lack of transparency and a flawed bidding process, according to the draft of an internal school district report obtained by The Times.
It would take an ambitious American lawyer to help Guengueng fulfill his pledge, turning those testimonies, years later, into the core of a groundbreaking legal effort by Chadian victims and Chadian and international attorneys to hold Habré to account.
The report was a groundbreaking collective effort to present updated data and cost-effective solutions to reduce wasted food.
Despite strong opposition from the fossil fuels industry, including repeated efforts to gut the law, California's groundbreaking effort to clean our air, protect our climate and grow a clean-energy industry that produces good, career-path jobs is moving forward.
Congratulations to Mayor John Street for his groundbreaking effort to get Philadelphians to eat better and exercise more ("Philadelphia's Mayor Puts His City on a Diet," front page, March 12).
