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The Guardian, which was first published in 1821, is most recently renowned for its agenda-setting NSA and GCHQ revelations following disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden, its globally acclaimed investigation into phone hacking and the launch of its groundbreaking digital-first strategy in 2011 and its trailblazing partnership with WikiLeaks in 2010.
The Guardian is also known for its globally acclaimed investigation into phone hacking, the launch of its groundbreaking digital-first strategy in 2011 and its trailblazing partnership with WikiLeaks in 2010.
Wolff had studied architecture and design and had been working in a small London design partnership when they met and started their groundbreaking brand consultancy Wolff Olins in 1965.
Most despicably of all the columnist Richard Littlejohn suggested Chahal, who has a long record of bringing groundbreaking cases, might have a crush on Sutcliffe; the writer likened her to "one of those madwomen who write to serial killers and end up marrying them".
What makes the verbal sortie on the Vatican so groundbreaking however is that it is a Fine Gael taoiseach, whose political base lies in the conservative west of Ireland, who has led from the front.
On Sunday the Guardian began publishing part two of its groundbreaking collaboration with the London School of Economics – Reading the Riots.
In 1989, with the inspired, groundbreaking single Fools Gold and the loose grooves of their debut album, they gave British rock a future, restoring the legacy of the 1960s with a jangling guitar sound and breathing new life into it with the energy of dance music.
It's now seven years since Hütter and his team at the Charité hospital in Berlin performed a groundbreaking stem cell transplant on a 40 year old HIV-positive patient, suffering from leukaemia.
(An analytical arc as groundbreaking as that is going to challenge common sense at a number of levels).
The groundbreaking working class films of the Sixties such as Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, Room at the Top were startling in their depiction of social inequities, but these were not films to savour for their cinematic verve.
The drug, which uses the body's own defences to spot and kill cancer cells rather than attacking them with chemotherapy, is regarded as potentially one of the most groundbreaking of recent years.
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The adjective "groundbreaking" primarily functions as an evaluative descriptor , attributing a high degree of innovation and impact to the noun it modifies. As Ludwig AI confirms, this term is widely recognized and accepted in the English language.
Expression frequency: Very common
