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breakthrough

[breyk-throo] / ˈbreɪkˌθru /


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After years of clumsy performance, AI models had a breakthrough moment last fall, when they became noticeably better at finding bugs and passing hacking-benchmarking tests.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Detectives said DNA evidence, surveillance footage and other forensic material remain under review, and more than $1 million in reward money is still being offered for information leading to a breakthrough.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

This clause still sounds like a significant breakthrough.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

His breakthrough, “Cure,” hit Japanese theaters when he was 42.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

In October 1917, near the little frontier town of Caporetto, the Austrians with their German allies achieved an unexpected breakthrough in what is called the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

The VC business is built on longer time horizons, higher levels of risk and the potential for outsize payoffs tied to meaningful breakthroughs in technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Achrekar called on pharmaceutical firms which make a range of new drugs seen as breakthroughs "accessible and affordable to all".

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

The laboratory allows researchers to conduct experiments and achieve scientific breakthroughs that would not be possible under conditions on Earth.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

There won’t be “experts on everything in every state,” said Hughes, so patients who are able will seek out the latest breakthroughs and best care.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 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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