breakout

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A four-time acting winner at the Césars - France's equivalent of the Oscars - Baye starred in some 80 films in her lifetime after breakout roles in the early 1970s.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Speaking from his office on the Raleigh Studios lot in Hollywood, Lee discussed the season’s Montecito setting, the financial anxiety that drives the story and the four-legged breakout star of the show.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

So, for this to be meaningfully bullish to the SPX chart, we want to see the upside breakout persist from here.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

On the upside, $75,000 is the immediate ceiling, with trading volume critical to sustaining any breakout.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Less than two years later, Fudge had erupted out of the fire yet again, this time with the news that there had been a mass breakout from Azkaban.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling