Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Breaking the record; surpassing any recorded performance or production of its kind.
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- adjective Of an
achievement , exceeding the highest previouslyrecorded level in that activity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective surpassing any previously established record
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Examples
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Despite the record-breaking profits and unprecedented employee compensation, we learn from Bethany McLean's lengthy profile of the company in Vanity Fair that "there is an embattled feeling about the place," according to one person "who knows the firm well."
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Some initial damage reports of the massive and record-breaking snow storm of last week are in, and damage in Connecticut alone will top $3 billion, according to Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy.
Paul Yeager: Billion Dollar Plus U.S. Weather Disasters Keep Piling Up Paul Yeager 2011
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Fenty D appeared to relish during the District's record-breaking snowstorms last winter.
Gray faces first snow test as mayor Washington Post Editors 2011
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Less famous than its warm-water climate sibling El Niño, this year's La Niña has been "near record-breaking" in its intensity, says climate scientist Michelle L'Heureux of the Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md.
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During the recent record-breaking October snowstorm, I spent four days in the dark.
Mariela Dabbah: The Snowstorm: What I Learned From Losing Power Mariela Dabbah 2011
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Its shares rose 2.1% in Paris after its Airbus unit announced a record-breaking order for 180 aircraft from Indian budget carrier IndiGo.
Spanish, Greek Stocks Lead Europe Higher Simon Kennedy 2011
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And analysts think there's more record-breaking to come.
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His party took a vast surplus and turned it into a record-breaking deficit in part by giving tax breaks to the wealthy AFTER starting an unneeded, illegal and immoral war in Iraq and botching badly the questionable war on Afghanistan.
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His party took a vast surplus and turned it into a record-breaking deficit in part by giving tax breaks to the wealthy AFTER starting an unneeded, illegal and immoral war in Iraq and botching badly the questionable war on Afghanistan.
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Less famous than its warm-water climate sibling El Niño, this year's La Niña has been "near record-breaking" in its intensity, says climate scientist Michelle L'Heureux of the Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md.
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