major discovery

collocation in English

meaningsofmajoranddiscovery

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major
adjective
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/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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discovery
noun
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/dɪˈskʌv.ər.i/us
/dɪˈskʌv.ɚ.i/
the process of finding information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time, or the thing that ...
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So we have made a furthermajordiscovery.
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It is a huge gamble as to what will come out of thismajordiscovery.
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This seems a very small number for amajordiscoveryof this kind.
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Amajordiscoverywas finding evidence of ancient hot springs.
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Amajordiscoverywas finding evidence of hot springs.
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Brynteson and partners soon knew they had amajordiscovery.
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Her firstmajordiscoverywas that pattern formation and growth are regulated by the same mechanism.
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This change of a leafy twig into a tool was amajordiscovery.
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Amajordiscoveryhas been that the stimulation of the black neurons had no motor effect.
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Hismajordiscoverywas that the remembering self does not care about the duration of a pleasant or unpleasant experience.
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This graphite was anothermajordiscoveryfor him, and it became extremely valuable and helpful as a lubricant.
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The result of all that collaboration was the discovery, the application and development of genetic fingerprinting, a process which is now accepted worldwide as having been amajordiscovery.
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This was amajordiscoveryin the early 1990s that revealed how cells stop dividing after being exposed to damaging agents such as radiation.
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Pressure to find these genes mounts and everyone is scrambling to be the first to announce thismajordiscoverywhich could have gone to several laboratories.
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The find came as a complete surprise to the archaeologists, who were used to finding small non-precious objects but had not expected to make amajordiscovery.
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The successful detection of solar axions would constitute amajordiscoveryin particle physics, and would also open up a brand new window on the astrophysics of the solar core.
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Another recentmajordiscoveryoccurred in 1999 when orexin, or hypocretin, was found to have a role in arousal, since the lack of orexin receptors mirrors the condition of narcolepsy.
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