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record-breaking

 adjective
     
record-breaking [only before noun]
a record-breaking number, level, performance, or person is the highest, lowest, biggest, best etc of its type that has ever happened or existed:
his record-breaking flight across the Atlantic
—record-breaker noun [countable]
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