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- This drug has been heralded as a major breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer.
- They had minor breakthroughs but real success eluded them.
- Biological research has often been a precursor to medical breakthroughs which benefit patients.
- The leaders emphasized that a substantial breakthrough had been achieved, but there was more work to be done.
- Researchers reported another important breakthrough in cancer research.
- ascertain
- break (fresh/new) ground idiom
- bring something to light idiom
- catch someone red-handed idiom
- catch someone with their pants/trousers down idiom
- fossick
- found
- geocache
- geocaching
- get hold of idiom
- homing
- pinpoint
- plumb
- red-handed
- rediscover
- rediscovery
- refind
- refound
- sniff
- suss
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very important in the progress or development of something or someone, because of solving a big problem or making a big improvement:
- The first breakthrough cure for tuberculosis was streptomycin in the 1940s.
- The year ahead isn't expected to produce any breakthrough technologies.
- I finally realized that the common factor in all these failed relationships was me. It was a breakthrough moment.
- Her depiction of the young Queen Elizabeth was her breakthrough role.
- ascertain
- break (fresh/new) ground idiom
- bring something to light idiom
- catch someone red-handed idiom
- catch someone with their pants/trousers down idiom
- fossick
- found
- geocache
- geocaching
- get hold of idiom
- homing
- pinpoint
- plumb
- red-handed
- rediscover
- rediscovery
- refind
- refound
- sniff
- suss
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