breakthrough
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Really, though, no breakthrough or remission would’ve been possible if I hadn’t been honest with others about how far I’d plunged emotionally and psychologically.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026
The last round of trilateral talks, held in Geneva in February, ended without a breakthrough.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Bhattacharya said commercial fleets could provide the next breakthrough.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Green cites recent breakthroughs in mathematics by AI labs, including a partial solution to the infamously challenging Navier Stokes equations, and a more recent breakthrough disproving the Exponential Time Hypothesis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Theoretical breakthrough that it was, complementarity did nothing to resolve the paradoxical results emanating from the atomic nucleus.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Although the American side said they saw "some openings", there was no hint of any breakthroughs to end the nearly five year-long war sparked by Russia's invasion.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Others made their breakthroughs in state and local politics.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
November looks set to start in a more pleasant fashion for most investors with stock futures pointing to gains and oil retreating on hopes for Middle East diplomatic breakthroughs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
High-temperature superconductivity ranks among the most important scientific breakthroughs of the past four decades.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
A girl named Rose says, “Well, because of her cells the medical field had major breakthroughs, like the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, and the creation of drugs that treat leukemia, influenza, and Parkinson’s disease.”
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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