breakthrough
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“Gadd’s toxic menace in ‘Half Men,’ a world removed from his ‘Baby Reindeer’ breakthrough, could propel him back to the winner’s circle,” says Matt Roush.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
He sees crude rising to $130 a barrel in the third quarter, absent a breakthrough in U.S.-Iran talks, with a $120 price likely holding into the end of the year.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
The breakthrough relies on tiny "molecular antennas" that funnel electrical energy into insulating nanoparticles.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
Musk, speaking virtually at the Samson International Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv, was asked to describe an exciting breakthrough technology that he’s working on and that people “aren’t talking about enough.”
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
But it would not be until the early 1940s that a major breakthrough would allow more efficient undersea explorations, discoveries, and excavations in the form of an invention by Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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