The phrase
"to have a breakthrough" means to make a sudden and significant progress or discovery in a particular area or situation.
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No matter how much researchers study it, we don't really
have any breakthroughs in this realm to speak of from the scientific community that have radically changed people's lives.
To pick a transfer flop after just one season, often a player might need a year to settle in and might not
have a breakthrough year right away.
I don't want to put myself or my baby through this any more if no one else has had this problem and
then had a breakthrough.
Old habits die hard, and even when I
do have breakthroughs, I usually find myself slipping back into old, comfortable and unhealthy patterns.
It is very good at detecting patterns in large data sets, but it can't think of a brilliant new idea or
have a breakthrough insight the way that a person can.
Another favorite was the renegade Empire pilot played by Riz Ahmed, who
had a breakthrough role this year in HBO's «The Night Of.»
So, yeah, back to my Positive Parenting mention... I finally
had a breakthrough moment a few weeks ago, when my brother came to visit, and my spawn was pretending to be a puppy that day.
Rauschenberg
had his breakthrough with the Combines, works that are neither sculpture nor painting, but a combination of a variety of objects, materials, and artistic techniques.
Meanwhile, Coquelin is a product of Arsenal youth setup; after many trials and loan moves he
finally had a breakthrough in the middle of two seasons ago.
One should be suspicious of any player
who has a breakthrough campaign at age 29, especially when the underlying numbers point to it being an aberration.
The packed, randomly peopled hallways in Anderson's first major video, made the same year he released Boogie Nights,
has the breakthrough film's same energy and constant revolving cast of characters, all of whom manage to get in the way, somehow.
DM is hard because we
just had a breakthrough season for a young player who it would be difficult to bench now... and conversely buying good enough quality to warrant removal of Arteta as back up is hard because nobody wants to be fighting to be second choice!
«
Alex had his breakthrough season but this year he can confirm it even more,» he said, according to the club's official website.
Although the big breakthrough for interactive fiction never happened — partly because computer games became increasingly story - centered -, IF has a
«I think players like Francis
also had his breakthrough season last year so I was very happy to share those moments with him because I've known him for a long time as well.
AbbVie, which partnered with Enanta Pharmaceuticals, disclosed positive results for the remaining phase III studies tied to its all - oral regimen, which also
has breakthrough therapy status.
Among the things analysts Sucharita Mulpuru and Andy Hoar don't expect will happen in 2015: Apple Pay won't replace old - fashion credit and debit cards; Alibaba won't transform the online landscape in the U.S.; and online grocery sales wo
n't have a breakthrough year.
«Mastry
has a breakthrough feel: the suggestion of a new normal, in art and in the national consciousness,» affirmed The New Yorker.
In 2007 Paul Graham's influential seed - stage venture fund Y
Combinator had a breakthrough idea: starting a great tech company didn't require millions in venture capital.
Warby Parker began when Neil
Blumenthal had a breakthrough realization: There are nearly a billion people in the world without access to an essential, 800 - year - old product.
Religious publishers work hard at developing books for laypeople, and they
sometimes have breakthrough successes, but they face the same marketing problems as the CHRISTIAN CENTURY - a limited budget makes it impossible to run ads in major «secular» magazines or to do a really big direct mail campaign.
Alex
Iwobi had his breakthrough season this year, with the Nigerian international getting his chance to feature in Arsene Wenger's first team.
Isco has a breakthrough season in his first term at La Rosaleda last season, where he helped Malaga to secure their maiden Champions League berth.