sound barrier
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But its treatment in general showed "there are still areas where the #MeToo movement has not yet breached the sound barrier, chiefly in men's football," she added.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Turns out, it wasn’t a language barrier, it was a sound barrier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
Chief Executive Bryon Hargis said it isn’t the straightforward engineering of quintupling the sound barrier that has held the U.S. back, but the manufacturing challenge of mass-producing weapons that can do so reliably and economically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Along the coast in the city of Tyre, Israeli jets are swooping low, breaking the sound barrier - but the beach below is more crowded.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
At NASA’s High-Speed Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base—the place where pilot Chuck Yeager first cracked through the sound barrier in 1947— engineer John Perry manned an X-15 simulator.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
