significant breakthrough
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantandbreakthrough
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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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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It is asignificantbreakthrough.
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This invention is asignificantbreakthrough.
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This is asignificantbreakthroughfor workers' emancipation.
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There is no doubt that this is asignificantbreakthrough.
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That was asignificantbreakthroughin public attitudes towards the disease.
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Obviously this agreement is asignificantbreakthroughand it is to be welcomed.
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Again, we could be looking at asignificantbreakthroughin methodology.
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This is a verysignificantbreakthrough, and one which we can build upon.
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There has been asignificantbreakthrough—an important innovation—in the field of accelerated education.
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Thanks to all these men and women, we have made asignificantbreakthrough: the compromise is a new text.
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The campaign represents asignificantbreakthrough: the promotion of a positive safety culture by industry at local level.
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That was asignificantbreakthroughin the use of complementary and alternative medicine in the health service.
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However, it will be some time before we can judge whether that is a short-term change in voting patterns or asignificantbreakthrough.
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She raised the profile of the campaign and gave it added momentum, so that it made asignificantbreakthroughin the public consciousness.
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Asignificantbreakthroughoccurred in 1991, when representatives from all the chiropractic associations came together to form the chiropractic registration steering group.
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This may well be thesignificantbreakthroughin the eventual elimination of scandalously low-paid workers in whole sections of industry.
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Her appointment was generally recognized as asignificantbreakthroughfor female judges in the province.
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Thissignificantbreakthroughultimately allowed for the development of the polio vaccines.
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It was unable to make anysignificantbreakthroughin the subsequent elections.
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For, one of the tragedies of a tragic situation is that no sooner does it seem that somesignificantbreakthroughhas been achieved than a setback occurs.
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This was the firstsignificantbreakthroughand a step towards more studies in this domain of research.
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This was asignificantbreakthroughsince efforts to grow insect cells in culture had been attempted for decades previously.
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Asignificantbreakthroughwas made four days after the incident when all 16 of the attackers were identified.
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This was asignificantbreakthroughthat led to the industrial manufacture of lead-acid batteries, as now used for starting motor cars.
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At the time of publication, golden rice was considered asignificantbreakthroughin biotechnology, as the researchers had engineered an entire biosynthetic pathway.
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