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
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
Intense sonic booms could be heard overhead as Israeli jets broke the sound barrier.
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024
In 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier just north of Los Angeles County, at Edwards Air Force Base, where space shuttles landed from 1981 through 2009.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024
It was like dodging back and forth from one dimension to another, a silent explosion of breaking through a sound barrier, a curious experience, like a quick dip into a known but alien water.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
