breakthrough
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His first weeks have brought Apple’s first foldable iPhone and a long-awaited AI overhaul of Siri, as the company tries to find its next breakthrough beyond the smartphone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
The Orange Order and Garvaghy Road residents continued separate talks Wednesday with Britain's Northern Ireland minister Chris Bryant at Hillsborough Castle, west of Belfast, after earlier rounds failed to produce a breakthrough.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The insight, which would be implemented in an accelerator known as the synchrotron, was a breakthrough on a par with Lawrence’s own recognition of the cyclotron principle.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai were awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for breakthroughs within asymmetric synthesis that have helped advance the development of modern pharmaceuticals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
The year 1450 is best remembered for one of the most important technological breakthroughs of human civilisation: Johannes Gutenberg’s development of a moveable-type printing press in the German town of Mainz.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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