milestones

plural of milestone

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Recent Examples of milestones When Rani Johnson joined Workday as chief information officer in March 2023, her appointment happened to coincide with some monumental generative artificial intelligence milestones, including the debut of Anthropic’s Claude and the rollout of OpenAI’s GPT-4. John Kell, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025 Today's launch will be the latest in a series of milestones that SpaceX has notched recently. Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025 However, Suárez is aging and chasing some milestones. Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 There could also be built-in review periods that allow for the suspension or reduction of tariffs when specific milestones are achieved or, conversely, for the escalation of tariffs if compliance remains an issue. Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 21 Oct. 2025 About the Technology The new AI engine is designed to automatically interprets goals, constraints, and deliverables to generate structured project plans — complete with milestones, dependencies, and timelines. Maria Williams, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025 Starship will build on this experience, combining Falcon’s reusability with Saturn V’s lifting power, effectively uniting the most important milestones in rocketry into a single system. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025 After divorcing their previous partners and publicizing their relationship, the ex-GMA3 co-anchors hit many relationship milestones, including moving in together. Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025 OpenAI can acquire up to 10% of AMD if certain deployment milestones are met. Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for milestones
Noun
  • Audition is a slow burn, spending the better part of two hours setting up audiences for arguably one of the most graphic climaxes in horror history.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Joaquin Temes As Argentina's midterm electoral campaign reaches its second and third climaxes, the number of scandalous corruption accusations aimed at the highest echelons of national politics is surging.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • From exploring historic landmarks to dining at restaurants run by those who’ve served our country, here are the best things to do for an eventful, and distinctly Texan, Veterans Day weekend.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The race will run through Virginia and Washington, DC, including past some of the nation's most famous landmarks.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • How much water ultimately makes it into that system depends on snowmelt and rainfall on the Salt and Verde watersheds, which SRP is trying to track more accurately.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The village’s environment department is repairing treatment plants, restoring watersheds and working on accessing federal aid.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Two veteran data journalists are launching a new investigative publication to cover rising authoritarianism from the shadowy corners of the internet.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Traversing quaint New York street corners and rooftops, Vincent serenades his girl with playful bars about love, commitment and the important building blocks of a good relationship.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The closure was between mileposts 226 to 244 due to flooding on the roadway, ADOT said.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Milestones.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milestones. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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