breakthroughs
- plural of breakthrough.
Example Sentences
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Dramatic backstories about "secret inventions" or "industry breakthroughs"
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Americans will benefit from AI through pharmaceutical breakthroughs, productivity gains that raise wages, and myriad other ways that are hard to predict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
IBM monetizes its semiconductor breakthroughs through licensing rather than manufacturing.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Microsoft's claims it has made major breakthroughs in quantum computing have been questioned by a UK-based physicist, in a paper published by the science journal Nature.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
He also discovered many useful compounds, among them ammonia, glycerin, and tannic acid, and was the first to see the commercial potential of chlorine as a bleach–all breakthroughs that made other people extremely wealthy.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
