breakthrough
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The breakthrough established MAL as a human blood group system and gave doctors a new way to identify the exceptionally rare people whose blood lacks the AnWj antigen.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
In other words, the talks may already be happening behind the scenes, even if there isn’t yet a public breakthrough or a clear timeline.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Two of the authors involved in that paper also threw cold water on the idea that the Hugging Face swarm hack by OpenAI agents occurred because of a breakthrough in intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
His breakthrough came last season as he broke several records.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
In October 1917, near the little frontier town of Caporetto, the Austrians with their German allies achieved an unexpected breakthrough in what is called the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Speaking at the TUC congress later on Tuesday, Haigh is also expected to acknowledge the benefits, saying: "AI has enormous potential to transform our public services, make our businesses stronger and deliver new scientific breakthroughs."
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
For another, seeding the idea that they’re close to such breakthroughs can also have the advantageous effect of driving investment in an era where none of these companies have found a path to profitability.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
The recent GLP-1 breakthroughs in China are largely incremental rather than revolutionary, experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
BofA Securities says investor and corporate interest in quantum computing is surging as government funding, technological breakthroughs, and rising budgets push the technology closer to commercialization.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The year 1450 is best remembered for one of the most important technological breakthroughs of human civilisation: Johannes Gutenberg’s development of a moveable-type printing press in the German town of Mainz.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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