Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which breaks the record in any sense of that phrase.
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- noun someone who breaks a record
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Examples
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Despite these unusual scenes, however, this year overall is not likely to be a global record-breaker.
Despite warm autumn, 2011 temperatures fail to reach record highs 2011
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A record-breaker at the Paralympic Games in 1996, Aimee Mullins has built a career as a model, actor and activist for women, sports and the next generation of prosthetics.
Boing Boing 2009
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This week, he will preside over his last results announcement, which promises to be another record-breaker.
Tesco's Leahy Takes Stock Patience Wheatcroft 2010
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In Chicago, officials braced for a potential record-breaker.
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Christians; and I do not like Bora Bora Christians, he said one day, when I, with the idea of getting him to spend some of the money that was rightfully his, had been trying to persuade him to make a visit to his own island in one of our schooners -- a special voyage that I had hoped to make a record-breaker in the matter of prodigal expense.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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In Sam Tomkins, England have a record-breaker, after the Wigan full-back became the first player to score four tries in a match for the national side twice.
Jack Reed and England prepare to face Greg Inglis and Australia 2011
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Political ad spending is on track to be a record-breaker thanks to highly competitive races and a Supreme Court ruling that freed corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts on independent campaign ads.
Political Ads Edge Out Consumer Ads Suzanne Vranica 2010
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-- Has HBO spent its way to a record-breaker with its World War II project, the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks-produced miniseries "The Pacific"?
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-- Has HBO spent its way to a record-breaker with its World War II project, the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks-produced miniseries "The Pacific"?
TV Column: Lisa de Moraes on the 2010 Emmy Award nominations 2010
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Some observers had thought it might be a record-breaker and before the sale Christie's president, Jussi Pylkkänen, called it "one of the most important works of art to be offered at auction in decades".
Picasso, Manet and Matisse - auctions revel in Europe's richest art sales 2010
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