breakthrough
noun
a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's frontline defense.
breakthroughs
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pluralof breakthrough.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Yet reading “The Proof in the Code,” which takes the reader right up to the threshold of current breakthroughs, I was struck as much by the limitations of machine mathematics as by its power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
There were no major breakthroughs on big issues including AI, Iran and Taiwan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
But there were no joint statements and few major breakthroughs.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
"For anybody who studies pathogenic bacteria, it's always in the back of our minds that antibiotics are one of the most important breakthroughs in medicine in the 20th century," Barber said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Nanotechnologists literally seek to arrange atoms, and could, Drexler wrote, trigger the greatest technological breakthroughs of all time.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
