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breakthrough English

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breakthrough

A breakthrough is a sudden change, a change from not being able to do something to being able to do something. After the breakthrough, rubber could be made in a factory and rubber trees were no longer the only source of rubber.

breakthrough

making an important discovery (= discovery) a productive insight a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense

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Simple sentences

That was a huge and real breakthrough.
This is a real breakthrough.

Movie subtitles

The Krauts made a breakthrough someplace.
A journalist in Switzerland met with a German scientist who stated that your project would be an incredible breakthrough in anti-Godzilla operations in Japan when completed.
Headquarters is determined to make a complete breakthrough.
We must assume that the Bismarck, in company with the Prinz Eugen, is going to attempt a breakthrough to the North Atlantic.
It might give you your heart's desire: your artistic breakthrough.
We can somehow breakthrough over there.
He's coming. I'll tell him after the breakthrough.
Let's go into breakthrough.
The breakthrough didn't succeed.
We must go back to help them at a new breakthrough.
Comrades, all the plans for the renewed breakthrough have failed.
If I need a breakthrough to Jerusalem, I must concentrate, not dissipate.
Still no breakthrough.
Doc, an exciting thing happened, I think I'm about to make a breakthrough.
There's been a big breakthrough.
Headquarters is determined to make a breakthrough.
Sir Henry is a dolt, who cannot recognize the greatest breakthrough in science since steam replaced sail.
Yes, that's. quite a breakthrough you've made.
I'm convinced we're on the verge of a breakthrough.
I think, gentlemen, you will agree that a fantastic breakthrough is possible.
Claim it's a scientific breakthrough.
I wish I could make a scientific breakthrough with her.
The breakthrough will come in a month.
What I'd like to see right now is a major breakthrough or two. At least to give me the sense that I'm on the right track.
Even your breakthrough in duotronics did not have the promise of this.
At the age of 24, he made the duotronic breakthrough that won him the Nobel and Zee-Magnees Prizes.
No breakthrough?
A breakthrough without air support.
But couldn't we shift Zhukov's tanks and engage them in the breakthrough to Berlin via your front?
My Fuhrer, there's an opportunity to breakthrough out of Berlin.
It isn't a chain of reasonings but rather sudden intuition, the breakthrough that allows us to reach the few certainties we share.
We've got to make a breakthrough.
Maybe he was on the point of a breakthrough.
Tonight, my unconventional conventionists you are to witness a new breakthrough in biochemical research.

News and current affairs

We need a breakthrough that is demonstrable, public, clear, and convincing, that can mobilize the public's hearts and minds, and that can demonstrate success.
As shown in a study by the Breakthrough Institute, fracking was built on substantial government investment in technological innovation for three decades.
A technological breakthrough - the steam engine, computers, the Internet - may play a leading role.
NEW DELHI - Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere.
I believe that the chances for a political breakthrough in our region have never been better.
In retrospect, the breakthrough legislation - not just for the US, but also internationally - was the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
But such breakthrough technologies are not simply invented and then implemented - they need government support in the form of a coherent set of laws and regulations covering their use.
It is inconceivable that multilateral negotiations could result in a breakthrough toward a diplomatic solution while North Korea is actively engaged in pursuing its nuclear weapons program.
This constituted a breakthrough in party tactics.
Of the two pre-Paris announcements, it was that of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition (BEC) - Gates and his fellow entrepreneurs - that grabbed most of the headlines.
If a technological breakthrough is needed in the fight against climate change, whom should we expect to provide it, if not the wizards of Silicon Valley and other hubs of free-market innovation?
A Global Fund for Education, combined with a global voluntary effort to connect kids around the world, offers the chance for a breakthrough that was not realistic even a few years ago.
Or a huge growth breakthrough?
But how much risk is Bush - without whom a real breakthrough will be impossible - prepared to accept?
If this pledge is adopted and respected, conflicts in the region will be viewed in a wholly different, more tolerant context, marking a historic breakthrough to peace.
Russia needs a breakthrough toward an up-to-date, knowledge-based, and ecologically sustainable economy.
The agreement on Syria's chemical weapons struck by Russia and the US could one day be remembered as a spectacular breakthrough in the field of arms control.
But the biggest breakthrough in reshaping societal norms was in family-planning policy - replacing the one-child limit that had been in force since 1980 with a two-child limit beginning in 2017.
TEL AVIV - No one really believed that the latest round of international negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program would produce a breakthrough.
But an end to international sanctions presupposes a breakthrough in the nuclear negotiations.
Unfortunately, however, the leaders of China, South Korea, and Japan have not yet made any major breakthrough on the most sensitive security issues that divide them.
The question of whether to use coal or nuclear power is simply no longer apposite: without a breakthrough in renewable energies, global energy demand cannot be met, not to mention the dangers of a new Chernobyl.
The decade-long effort we propose would require the whole planet to work together to make a breakthrough in the fight against climate change.

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