pacesetter

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See also: pace-setter and pace setter

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Etymology

From pace +‎ setter.

Noun

pacesetter (plural pacesetters)

  1. One who or that which determines the rate of action through leading.
    Coordinate terms: pacemaker; trendsetter
    • 2022 September 23, Jason Farago, “The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      It’s all been a dreadful embarrassment, but why should anyone outside Germany be concerned? Because Documenta was always a pacesetter — and this year’s edition certainly put its finger on a larger shift, seen too in our museums, our art schools and our magazines, away from aesthetic ambition and intellectual seriousness and toward the easier comforts of togetherness, advocacy and fun.

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