as in breakthroughs
a sudden large change or improvement
Prices have taken a quantum leap upward. The new drug is a quantum leap in the fight against cancer.
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The progress was built on earlier breakthroughs – in 2013, the team added an internal airflow path to an existing nozzle, allowing thrust to be redirected without power loss.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Feb. 2026 -
In the art studio, children collaborated on a colorful mural honoring Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cancer cells were widely used in medical research and led to major scientific breakthroughs.—
Eva Andersen,
CBS News,
7 Feb. 2026
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