breakthrough
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Before the game, in his BBC Sport column, Gael Clichy, who coached Olise at the Paris Olympics, said he had the potential to be the breakthrough star at the tournament.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
A genuine efficiency breakthrough, or a pause in data-center capital spending, would reprice both sides of this market fast: relief for the consumer-facing companies, and a reckoning for suppliers valued for permanent scarcity.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
The “Masters of the Universe” actor shares her passion for horror films, her fear of crawl spaces and her breakthrough role on “Mad Men.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
“But we had a breakthrough last week and he’s sleeping a lot better. Therefore, my life has been a lot easier.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
When word of the breakthrough in making sugar reached the landowners in that one more advanced part of Russia, they knew just what to do: plant beets.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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