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an instance of notable progress in the development of knowledge, technology, or skill
- Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin was one of medicine's great breakthroughs, for penicillin became the first antibiotic to successfully combat bacterial infections in humans
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The first known use of breakthrough was in 1915
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