Usually means: Change established patterns significantly, innovatively.
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  1. break the mold: Merriam-Webster
  2. break the mold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break the mold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. break the mold: Wiktionary
  5. break the mold: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break the mold: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break the mold: Medical dictionary

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  1. break the mold: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (break the mold)

verb:  (figurative) To depart from a traditional pattern; to defy convention.
verb:  To make it impossible for an identical copy to be made.

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