亚洲网紅露点

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breakthrough

[ breyk-throo ]

noun

  1. a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's frontline defense.
  2. an act or instance of removing or surpassing an obstruction or restriction; the overcoming of a stalemate:

    The president reported a breakthrough in the treaty negotiations.

  3. any significant or sudden advance, development, achievement, or increase, as in scientific knowledge or diplomacy, that removes a barrier to progress:

    The jet engine was a major breakthrough in air transport.

  4. Medicine/Medical. an infection, disease, disorder, or condition that occurs in an individual despite their having received a vaccine, medication, or treatment:

    Covid breakthroughs are usually less severe than infections in unvaccinated people, indicating that the vaccine is still doing its job of combating the virus.



adjective

  1. constituting a breakthrough: Critics called it a breakthrough film.

    Their products are engineered with breakthrough technology.

    Critics called it a breakthrough film.

  2. Medicine/Medical. relating to or being an infection, disease, disorder, or condition that occurs as a breakthrough: She experienced disabling breakthrough pain despite the high dose of painkillers she was taking.

    In the original vaccine trial, 89% of breakthrough infections were with a particular family of virus strains.

    She experienced disabling breakthrough pain despite the high dose of painkillers she was taking.

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of breakthrough1

First recorded in 1915鈥20; noun use of verb phrase break through
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But it is wise, too, to acknowledge the sheer scale of this breakthrough by Reform UK.

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Chelsea academy graduates usually have a couple of well-trodden pathways - breakthrough, loan, first team; or breakthrough, loan, sale.

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But it鈥檚 also frightening, Acharya said, to think that political considerations are now guiding science and scientific research, erasing years of effort and thwarting potential cures and the chance at future breakthrough treatments.

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Sheikh Mohammed said that they were "trying to find a breakthrough" but added that Israel and Hamas remained at odds on what a ceasefire would entail.

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Around the same time Yamamoto met with Hern谩ndez, he also had a breakthrough with the coaching staff.

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