breakout
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He also appeared in Perfect Strangers, Bicentennial Man, and more recently in director Taika Waititi's 2016 breakout hit Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
This week’s breakout performance hints that Meta’s stock could finally shed its label as an AI loser — opening the door for the company to potentially spend even more on its AI strategy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
And breakout cast member Ashley Padilla was overlooked too, her comic timing apparently too absurd for voters’ tastes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The country also has produced some of the region’s biggest breakout stars such as the Afropop boy band Sauti Sol, whose members later went solo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
It was Elizebeth who engineered their final breakout.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
She added that the firm has generally seen solid follow-through across breakouts, with rallies often seen for stocks passing their 200-day moving averages.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
“We’re really very respectful of breakouts when they happen because that’s the breadth,” Stockton said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
And those who came before him all had playoff breakouts early in their careers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Some of the states that have undergone big breakouts have rates for kindergartners below the 95% goal — Texas was 93.2%; New Mexico, 94.8%; and South Carolina, 91.2%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
When kids did stage desperate, pathetic breakouts, it had been in small groups of Reds, Oranges, and Yellows.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
