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breakthrough

[breyk-throo] / ˈbreɪkˌθru /


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She was on the podium plenty of times in a breakthrough 2025, but not in a senior event with a gold medal around her neck.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

“We see this in our continued strong financial results, client satisfaction, employee engagement, and breakthrough innovation as we build and ship products better and faster than ever before.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

At the time, they were seen as the largest breakthrough since the 2017 collapse of talks, but there has since been only limited progress on implementation.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Indiana in 2019 could have been the breakthrough.

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

Your father thinks he is real close to a breakthrough on his sneaker project.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

Once a fatal and terrifying diagnosis, scientific breakthroughs and massive funding efforts have transformed HIV into a manageable disease for millions of people.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

The laboratory allows researchers to conduct experiments and achieve scientific breakthroughs that would not be possible under conditions on Earth.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

“The hardest thing that science and arguably humanity tries to do is to come up with breakthroughs and important new medicines,” Yancopoulos said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

There won’t be “experts on everything in every state,” said Hughes, so patients who are able will seek out the latest breakthroughs and best care.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

Huygens’s early work was chiefly in the field of mathematics, where he made improvements in existing techniques and developed his own skills, without making any major new breakthroughs.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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