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UK
/bɹˈeɪkθɹuː/
]
[ US /ˈbɹeɪkˌθɹu/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹeɪkˌθɹu/ ]
NOUN
- making an important discovery
- a productive insight
- a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense
How To Use breakthrough In A Sentence
- But that day isn't going to be now, or any time in the next ten years, absent a major breakthrough.
- The Museum is looking to host exhibitions that celebrate major technological breakthroughs and the people behind them.
- Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
- Scientists are claiming a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer.
- With other breakthroughs in chemistry, it is now possible to synthesize some natural products, like rubber, from non-natural sources.
- Yes, he agrees, there are pockets of development, but you have to have breakthrough points.
- The development of a ball made out of celluloid was a breakthrough, and led to the onomatopoeic baptism of the game. Play Ball!
- You are more likely to have major breakthroughs when your line of thought isn't being interrupted.
- Experts in how different peoples and cultures use indigenous plants, the field known as ethnobotany, believe the work could prove a catalyst for medical breakthroughs, putting scientists on the trail of new, life-saving drugs.
- Biological research has often been a precursor to medical breakthroughs which benefit patients.