Thesaurus results for MILESTONES

milestones

noun

plural of milestone

as in climaxes

a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occurs the new drug was regarded as a milestone in the treatment of heart disease

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Recent Examples of milestones From concept development to flight qualification The US company and its partners have already passed several development milestones since the program started. — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026 Over the years, viewers watched the roommates go from nights at the club and boardwalk drama to pregnancies, babies, sobriety milestones, businesses, weddings and everything in between. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026 Eligible AAdvantage Hotels and AAdvantage Cars bookings now earn 12X AAdvantage miles instead of the previous 10X miles, and the card has new Loyalty Point milestones. — Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026 Carnival previously counted milestones based on the number of cruises taken rather than days sailed. — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026 These employees will be partially compensated with stock options tied to milestones at the facility. — Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026 In addition to these milestones, this will be the ninth overall launch by the Ariane 6 program, which was developed by the European Space Agency and is now operated by Arianespace. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026 These milestones are significant because logical qubits are becoming a more meaningful measure of progress than raw physical-qubit counts. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 In addition to the new arrests, several other cybercrime cases reached major legal milestones. — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026

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As the drama with Salt Lake City climaxes, the rest of the Girls Trip women start to wonder if there’s more to the story than Lisa let on.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026
Ross doesn’t tend towards punch-the-air climaxes—just warm, excitable builds.

— Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of climaxes

Noun

Both tracks have plenty of blind corners, are lined with walls, and feature high-speed turns.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Curb cuts — those graded concrete ramps at the edge of sidewalk corners that allow anyone and anything with wheels to glide gently onto the street below — aren’t really the sort of thing most people think about.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026

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Skiers can access Crystal Mountain, the largest ski resort in the state, from the west—the closure is between mileposts 57 and 74—but the pass itself is closed due to avalanche risks and heavy snowfall.

— Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2026
The fires blazed near Interstate 84 between mileposts 13 and 17 and between Southeast 8th and 9th avenues off of Sand Hollow Road, according to a news release, after a powerful storm system with high, damaging winds blew through the Treasure Valley.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 29 May 2026

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