groundbreaking work

collocation in English

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groundbreaking
adjective
uk
/ˈɡraʊndˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/us
/ˈɡraʊndˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/
If something is groundbreaking, it is very new and a big change from other things of ...
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work
noun
uk
/wɜːk/us
/wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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Contributors are a mix of leaders in their fields and younger scientists engaged ingroundbreakingwork.
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How marketable isgroundbreakingworkby actors with disabilities?
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While one would not wish to detract from what is clearly agroundbreakingwork, one could perhaps take issue with this final point.
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Groundbreakingworklike this develops the field of economics; the discipline awards prestigious prizes and chairs for these sorts of additions to economic analysis.
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Theirgroundbreakingworkhas served to motivate much of the more recent research on drainage basin evolution.
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Trudgill's (1986:28-31)groundbreakingworkon dialect contact includes two studies particularly relevant to second dialect acquisition.
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The school has donegroundbreakingworkon citizenship, and we very much hope for a favourable decision on its specialist school application, which will be largely centred on citizenship.
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Groundbreakingworkis going on in the new universities, but we are still told that they have lost their way.
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One of his most notable achievements was hisgroundbreakingworkon cryptography.
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He studied histamine release, as well asgroundbreakingworkin lipids and the absorption of cholesterol.
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He also didgroundbreakingworkin the field of anthropology.
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It is not so much agroundbreakingworkas a reference work of ideas already known at the time.
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And this opening of the repertoire mirroredgroundbreakingworkhappening across the world of opera in those years.
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He is known for hisgroundbreakingworkin mathematical applications to aerodynamics and transonic flow, and in non-linear equations more generally.
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The ensemble'sgroundbreakingworkinformed their work in composition.
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Although his playing had not changed much stylistically since hisgroundbreakingworkin the 1960s, these recordings showcased his sensitivity as a ballad player.
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She has donegroundbreakingworkon the social construction of categories often considered to be natural kinds, particularly race and gender.
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He is best known among economists and corporate law specialists for hisgroundbreakingworkin corporate governance.
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