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Record-breaking   /rəkˈɔrd-brˈeɪkɪŋ/   Listen
Record-breaking

adjective
1.
Surpassing any previously established record.  "Record-breaking crowds"





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"Record-breaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... was covered in record-breaking time, and before the cuckoo clock struck seven the children and goats and dog all came galloping ...
— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... extinguisher to their fire by planting down two fine big fellows of his own Morto Bay way: we mean to add a couple of old naval six-inchers to this battery. During his stay we have very thoroughly threshed out our hopes and fears and went into the plan which Gouraud thinks offers chances of a record-breaking victory. If the character of the new Commanders and the spirit of their troops are of the calibre of those on his left flank at Helles he ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... see, nothing so especially attractive about him, although Marise had said in her ardent way that he was "the sort of old American you love on sight, the kind that makes you home-sick when you meet him in Europe." And as for Mr. Marsh, he couldn't see any signs of his being such a record-breaking live-wire as they had all said. He walked along quietly enough, and was evidently as resigned as any of them to letting Mr. Bayweather do all the talking. On the other hand, none of them had told him what a striking-looking fellow he was, so tall, and with such a bold carriage ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher


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