breakout

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If bitcoin can “hold up above the $75,200 area for a couple of days, unlike a similar breakout attempt in mid-January, that would mark a short-term breakout,” Stockton told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

On the upside, $75,000 is the immediate ceiling, with trading volume critical to sustaining any breakout.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Netflix doesn’t have a formula for a breakout success, Howe said, but strong voices that feel universal must be at the show’s core.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

There was a breakout in the first season of The Hundred in 2021, before England debuts the following year, and three World Cups and two Ashes series since.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

“Hermione, there’s obviously been a mass breakout which the Ministry has hushed up. Travers’s hood fell off when I cursed him, he’s supposed to be inside too. But what happened to you, Remus? Where’s George?”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling