breakthrough
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Russell won his third race of the season in Azerbaijan last weekend, and his first for three months, and says he has made a breakthrough in terms of understanding how to drive the Mercedes car.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Last Wednesday, the head of an AI tech company casually announced, in a long-winded post on X, a discovery that, if true, would represent a major breakthrough in biomedical research.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
In the four years since ChatGPT’s breakthrough, generative-text bots have become an unavoidable, discomfiting presence in our most intimate relations—friendships, family ties, romantic prospects.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
Its modern breakthrough, however, came from the nylon bags Miuccia Prada began producing in the 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
There was a breakthrough on the right but some junior officers patched it.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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"A new generation of deep-science startups is translating breakthroughs into products and transforming fields such as life sciences, space, robotics and clean energy."
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
"For anybody who studies pathogenic bacteria, it's always in the back of our minds that antibiotics are one of the most important breakthroughs in medicine in the 20th century," Barber said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
But there were no joint statements and few major breakthroughs.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Two American AI companies, OpenAI and Anthropic, are widely viewed to be developing the most advanced AI models in the world, leading at the frontier of technological breakthroughs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
All of these breakthroughs and more had their roots in space science.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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