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• n  a productive insight
• n  making an important discovery
• n  a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense

• A major breakthrough was the finding that there is no word with a double X in any language except Maltese.
• Melton's confidence is testament to the extraordinary advances in stem-cell science, some of which have brought the promise of breakthrough therapies for conditions like diabetes .

• discovery
• find

News & Articles

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• Has Tesla Made a Big Breakthrough?
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been hinting that his company is on the verge of a recharging breakthrough. Now, a demo is planned for next week. Here's what to expect.        
  June 13, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• Iraq: No breakthrough seen in Maliki visit to Kurds
  ERBIL, Iraq, June 12 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's weekend visit to Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish enclave did not produce any visible sign of a breakthrough in Baghdad's feud with the independence-minded Kurds who're now exporting oil through neighboring Turkey.
  June 12, 2013 - UPI
• Fusion-io Achieves Breakthrough Shared Storage Performance at HP Discover
  LAS VEGAS, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- [HP Discover trade show booth #1452] -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced breakthrough shared storage performance results achieved in collaboration with Brocade ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Julia Gillard in The Associated Press
  The breakthrough agreement keeps faith with our central goal from day one: to deliver a better return for the Australian people for the resources they own and which can only be dug up once,Gillard said.
• Howard Stringer in Washington Post
  It's the breakthrough we've been anticipating,Stringer told The Associated Press Wednesday. "We've been holding our breath."
• Barack Obama in New York Times
  Mr. Obama described the agreement as a "significant breakthrough on the road to health care reform."