milestone
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Yet Weimar was also the site of a milestone Nazi Party rally in 1926.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The European Central Bank has authorized the takeover of Germany's Commerzbank AG by UniCredit, the Italian bank said Thursday, calling it an "important milestone" that underscored confidence in its bid.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Buckle up: Small-cap stocks just hit a market milestone they’d rather avoid.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
That spacecraft became the first successful planetary science mission, marking a major milestone in the exploration of other worlds.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
El Patrons piggyback heart performed valiantly, but it was clear the old man had passed a kind of milestone.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
So my message to your letter writer is to be careful about turning a lesson in spending too much into a judgment of people who haven’t hit the same milestones.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
But she warned that school readiness could become a source of anxiety for families and said it was important to recognise that children reached milestones at different speeds.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Hoisting that golden trophy for his acting is one of the only Hollywood milestones that Cruise has yet to achieve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
"We had several milestones we had to pass, and at each point, this project could have failed."
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Finally, he turned his attention to Weaver’s irksome list of missed milestones.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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