trailblazing

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trail +‎ blazing

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trailblazing (comparative more trailblazing, superlative most trailblazing)

  1. Resembling a trailblazer; innovative or pioneering.
    • 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 120:
      One can only wonder what led Rothstein to claim that Neville was such a trail-blazing pornographer.
    • 2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition)[1], page 100:
      The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz [] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.

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trailblazing

  1. present participle and gerund of trailblaze