important breakthrough

collocation in English

meaningsofimportantandbreakthrough

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important
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/us
/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
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breakthrough
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbreɪk.θruː/us
/ˈbreɪk.θruː/
an important discovery or event that helps to improve a situation or provide an answer to ...
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(Definition ofimportantandbreakthroughfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimportant breakthrough

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This is animportantbreakthroughin human thought.
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This would be animportantbreakthroughand, indeed, a major engineering feat.
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That is also animportantbreakthrough.
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This is a veryimportantbreakthrough.
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They represented animportantbreakthroughin international monetary arrangements.
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That is anotherimportantbreakthroughas regards business.
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This again was animportantbreakthroughfor the elderly.
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Only much later did he passionately maintain that the discovery of the parabolic shape of the projectile trajectory was his mostimportantbreakthrough.
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However, although animportantbreakthrough, that is clearly just a first step on a long road.
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The very fact of concentrating on qualifications already acquired is animportantbreakthrough.
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This is animportantbreakthrough, but not every scheme is appropriate for pilots.
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At the same time you have achieved animportantbreakthroughin the tax system.
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Despite these drawbacks, the compromise is animportantbreakthroughthat will set the foundations of a more sustainable economy.
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This is animportantbreakthroughin the bare five years that we have known of this disease in human society.
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Vertical landing is an extremelyimportantbreakthroughextreme, rapid reusability.
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However, although this is animportantbreakthrough, in our sector it is still accompanied by a reservation that is difficult to accept.
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It is a mostimportantbreakthrough; but it is essential, of course, that we have the waste paper which we can use.
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Assistance for the blind and partially sighted by the production of large-print posters and the provision of templates to assist voting is anotherimportantbreakthrough.
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The first presidential debate during the campaign is considered her mostimportantbreakthrough.
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This was animportantbreakthroughin 1929 because high-powered audio valves were not generally available.
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Although ligatures often spread infection, it was still animportantbreakthroughin surgical practice.
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It was animportantbreakthroughregarding a phenomenon that had been almost completely ignored, he says.
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I agree entirely with him that it is a veryimportantbreakthroughthat the provision of public transport can now be contemplated in the private sector.
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