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breakthrough

[brayk-throo] / ˈbreɪkˌθru /


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Yet she eventually found success writing songs for her friend Ariana Grande — chart-topping hits like “Thank U, Next” and “7 Rings” that set up Monét for a breakthrough as a performer with “Jaguar II.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

I've Seen It is the closing track of Dean's breakthrough album, which was released in September 2025.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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

“This is the first significant breakthrough for women in the history of Congress,” Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said at the time.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Yet reading “The Proof in the Code,” which takes the reader right up to the threshold of current breakthroughs, I was struck as much by the limitations of machine mathematics as by its power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

Certainly no one expected his survey to yield any dramatic breakthroughs.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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