How to Use groundwork in a Sentence

groundwork

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  • The man who laid the groundwork for it all wasn’t around to see it.
    — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • These films, and Texas Chain Saw, laid the groundwork for the slasher boom to come.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The latter remains to be seen, but the groundwork to avoid the former was laid a long time ago on the Hilltop.
    — Dallas News, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Pence allies have been laying the groundwork for him for months.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 5 June 2023
  • The groundwork for several deals was laid at the market.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The Lindsay Lohanaissance — or at least the groundwork laid for it — will be streamed.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The groundwork was laid years ago for the changes along the stretch of West Markham Street, a locus of city government offices.
    — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Without the groundwork going in, the crops do not appear.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • In two minutes and 33 seconds, Lake torched her decades-long career and laid the groundwork for a new one.
    — Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The project, researchers say, will lay the groundwork for future space travel.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Now is the time to make the moves that can reduce your tax bill for 2022 and lay the groundwork for a financially smart new year.
    — Terry Savage, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The first chapter lays the groundwork for the film’s narrative framework.
    — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The groundwork has been laid, but there is still a lot of cleanup and cross-platform integration to do.
    — Amy Spurling, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Every time we get contacted by a new client, I’m used to the stylists doing the groundwork of seeking out the brand.
    — Kyle Lamar Rice, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
  • Beijing has spent years laying the groundwork for the rules that take effect Tuesday.
    — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The groundwork for what happened to Marvel in 2023 had been laid down for quite a while, in both its boardrooms and its writing rooms.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In a sign of things to come, Musk pulled out of that deal and started laying groundwork to buy the company outright.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Starting almost 50 years ago, Blades, who grew up in Panama, helped lay the groundwork.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
  • To date, the Moonshot has set priorities and laid the groundwork for a bigger push in the next budget year.
    — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • In the television era, the fairness doctrine laid that groundwork.
    — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The panel has laid out the factual groundwork that shows Trump and some of his acolytes set the stage for and encouraged the riotous mob.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2022
  • Shoigu's claim sparked fears that Russia might be laying the groundwork to use a nuclear weapon and blame Ukraine for it.
    — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2022
  • There's even an argument that the show laid the groundwork for having a Black President of the United States.
    — Starr Rocque, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Lovullo seemed to be laying the groundwork for a potential quick hook.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • And primaries in Washington and Michigan laid the groundwork for a few of those contests.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024
  • No rate changes are expected, though officials look likely to lay the groundwork for a rate cut in the fall.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 25 July 2024
  • The groundwork was laid before the pandemic, when Franklin overhauled how math was taught.
    — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
  • For Och, the impressive audiences are a result of a more than a decade’s groundwork.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 8 July 2023
  • So, there is a sense of already laying the – the groundwork for potential discord.
    — NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • But even here, the groundwork was actually laid by Trump.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024

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