breakthrough

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Recent Examples of breakthrough Trump met Kim several times during his first term, holding landmark summits that ultimately failed to produce a meaningful breakthrough. Will Ripley, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025 Take the quiz here … LIFE ENGINEERED – Robots power breakthrough in pregnancy research, boosting IVF success rates. FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025 Her breakthrough film, Elizabeth (1998), her first Academy Award nomination, earned cameraman Remi Adefarasin an Oscar nom (and a Golden Frog win at Camerimage). Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025 These breakthroughs often reshape both behavior and relationships, turning frustration into understanding. Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for breakthrough
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Noun
  • That improvement has continued this season, with Barcelona adding more layers to their set-piece threat.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • If approved, the program would measure improvements by comparing passenger count data to fare collection data, according to the release.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the advances in AI, Duan concedes that early domestic CAE software lagged behind foreign competitors in several areas.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Every incremental advance in writing technology will accelerate progress across the entire spectrum of life science, from agriculture to pharmaceuticals, and from materials science to planetary defense; DNA synthesis is, after all, the foundational tool for engineering biology and biomanufacturing.
    Big Think, Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Achieving quick, consistent self-assembly in solution without evaporation has remained a significant difficulty, despite advancements in block copolymer templating, metal alkoxide chemistry, and nanomaterials.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The designers also wanted to pay homage to the technology that makes an advancement like this possible.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025

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