breakthrough
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The single’s accompanying album, “Good News for People Who Love Bad News,” was an overall pop-forward collection that signified the group’s commercial breakthrough and even earned two Grammy nominations in 2005.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
A genuine efficiency breakthrough, or a pause in data-center capital spending, would reprice both sides of this market fast: relief for the consumer-facing companies, and a reckoning for suppliers valued for permanent scarcity.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
His breakthrough came when Panchu Arunachalam, the writer-lyricist of Annakili, invited him to demonstrate his talent to the film's team.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
The real question is whether this one-two punch innovation represents a true breakthrough.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
Livingston’s breakthrough did not conclude the effort to improve the eleven-inch cyclotrons performance.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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