breakout

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The song became a breakout single for the duo and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard U.S. dance club songs chart, with The Times calling “It Takes Two” “the rage of the rap underground.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

The breakout star of the celebrity summer-movie circuit is a wrinkly green puppet.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

This week, it successfully retested the May breakout level, producing a bullish hammer Tuesday.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

During that rally, the ETF first broke above a cup-with-handle pivot at $51.88 on Jan. 12, followed by another breakout above the $59.20 trigger level on May 1:

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

After hearing Liam with Zu, I knew that he felt an intense guilt over what had happened the night of their breakout, but it sounded like it might run even deeper than that.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken