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breakthroughs

n. (plural of breakthrough English)

Usage examples of "breakthroughs".

I'd say this group—the Lab—they made all these important scientific breakthroughs.

Almost everything was recorded in the computer: how the Lab operated, its original membership, the scientific breakthroughs, the births of its children and their clones, the financial records, the outside contacts.

I know about the scientific breakthroughs and how you sold the knowledge to rich people and how you all expected to live one hundred and sixty years.

In particular I want to look for specific opportunities to have the enemy mass his large forces for more of these large breakthroughs.

It had taken several years of testing, additional espionage work and significant technological breakthroughs in research and development to accomplish it.

In those cases, the General was hoping that his secondary lines and his reserves would be enough to contain them and channel them into what they had to believe were their major breakthroughs along the two channels the General had prepared.

In the weeks that he had recently focused on the effort, the famed inventor had failed to secure any breakthroughs, despite his past successes in other realms.

Senator Fru claims that the Poritrin counsel has submitted documents signed by Norma Cenva, certifying that all technological breakthroughs made while in Holtzman's employ would remain the property of the government.

Their genetic sophistication and medical breakthroughs had already been a boon to humanity.

Extraordinary technical breakthroughs and scientific sophistication, such as the Tlulaxa had managed with their programmable organ farms, usually required an exchange of information and an open encouragement of innovation and genius.

If they made breakthroughs in medical technology, their coun­try would make billions on the world market.

He’d had no chance even to think for himself, much less make his own breakthroughs.

Everybody in the Valley figures that the breakthroughs in artificial life are going to come from distributed processing.

Xymos is really making breakthroughs—the kind of breakthroughs people have been waiting for more than ten years to happen.

My generation has, by the skin of our teeth as you say, and by enormous good fortune, just barely staved off an ecocatastrophe so total that nothing vertebrate could have survived - and we have even made some remarkable scientific breakthroughs.