noun
- The ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project.
- synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony
adjective
- Being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before.
- usage: "stylistically innovative works"; "innovative members of the artistic community"; "a mind so innovational, so original"
- synonyms: innovative, innovational
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