Groundbreaking in a sentence as a noun

No, his pull request wasn't groundbreaking, but it was useful.

It is very, very rare to have a truly groundbreaking idea.

With Facebook I see a huge lump of data but nothing really too groundbreaking.

But not groundbreaking in the sense of, say, Viola-Jones was for object detection.

There is no "groundbreaking new technology" to be invented.

This press release is a perfect example of how to write a press release for a high-profile, possibly groundbreaking discovery.

Groundbreaking in a sentence as an adjective

What if the "groundbreaking" crypto-cracking was that the NSA discovered you could trick people into cracking "bountied" SHA-256 hashes in a massively parallel operation?

Until this recent PR push, I hadn't found one of them who'd even heard of SpaceX, to say nothing of their groundbreaking and historical flight and recovery of a capsule with private funds.

I could never be building a groundbreaking, innovative weather network without different ideas and different manufacturers trying things out.

In other news, the lawnmowing industry has successfully lobbied the state government to pass a groundbreaking law making it a criminal offence to loan your lawnmower to a neighbour.

Breadth -- connecting disparate ideas -- is almost invariably what's needed for groundbreaking innovation.

The documents says they are "...investing in groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit internet traffic.

Groundbreaking definitions

noun

the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project

adjective

being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before; "stylistically innovative works"; "innovative members of the artistic community"; "a mind so innovational, so original"

See also: innovative innovational