milestone
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Corallie Hunt, coastal habitats adviser for NatureScot, said the installation of the first saltmarsh flux tower in Scotland marked an "important milestone".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Nvidia stock has broken through to new highs and the next milestone isn't that far off.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
A related neutral atom platform in the lab recently reached a major milestone by trapping 6,100 atoms in a single array.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The milestone is particularly notable because it hints that U.S. borrowing conditions haven’t just returned to a pre-2008-2009 financial crisis normalcy, as some investors have recently suggested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
One woman’s actions on a single bus eventually led to the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, a milestone in the Civil Rights Movement.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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"We had several milestones we had to pass, and at each point, this project could have failed."
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The agreement is mutually non-exclusive, with each company retaining development and commercial rights and no provisions around royalties, milestones, or revenue- or profit-sharing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Other research groups have recently reached similar milestones using different forms of quantum hardware.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Majumdar told MarketWatch that the Quantum World Congress could trigger a “sentiment reversal” if government contracts or big customer wins are announced, or if there is evidence of progress on technical milestones.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Fortunately, I met all of my mental-development milestones, and a test showed I was smart enough to make all the effort worthwhile.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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