quantum leap
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Now, however, women's involvement took a quantum leap.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
China’s renewed tightening of export controls is “a quantum leap in severity and coverage of such controls,” the economist says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
“This is a big deal. This is a quantum leap forward for civilian oversight commissions.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
In elite distance running, that’s not a marginal gain, it’s a quantum leap.
From Slate • Jun. 28, 2025
Nothing in between is allowed, so to get from 30 to 40 miles an hour, you have to make a quantum leap.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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