milestone
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To the aficionado, however, it marked a milestone.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"This year's breeding success is another important milestone in the return of this lost species to England; it shows what can be achieved by very skilled wildlife managers," Roy Dennis OBE from the foundation said.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
This week, the paper reached a milestone, marking a century covering L.A.’s increasingly diverse Latino community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The milestone will likely spook buyers even further, economists say, and add a disappointing punctuation mark to a year that had been expected to launch the housing market’s recovery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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For “high-risk, high-reward” areas of the AI trade such as next-generation optical connectivity, returns depend on meeting technology milestones, Susanto said, and that’s “why volatility and speculation there are so elevated.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
She remains awed that the show’s viewers — most of whom don’t agree with her politics — have acknowledged her personal milestones with warm greetings and homemade gifts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The French president laid out a series of milestones he wants Europe to reach over the next decade.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
"It's incredibly difficult to accept they won't be there to share the important milestones in our lives."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“I had no father at graduations, milestones, my wedding. “I lost out on a whole relationship in high school, middle school, college, without a father.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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