breakthrough * , also: breakthru AmE informal

"At some point in the near future we should see a breakthrough."

But Green has had a breakthrough in the last two days of practice.

When any research program, you could have a significant breakthrough.

Why now, when I might be so close to our first true breakthrough?

The year 1981 saw the beginning of a breakthrough for me.

I think we'll see a breakthrough within another day or so.

The next two years saw the international breakthrough of the team.

So here is where what actually was a breakthrough happened.

But any information, however small, might provide the breakthrough he needed.

He had called the deal a breakthrough for his people.

He made his breakthrough into the first team in 1921.

Or I could be the point man for a breakthrough.

The breakthrough for the young person who has left their family home is different.

His breakthrough season was in 1988, when he went 20-3.

He has been playing well and may be ready for a breakthrough.

The breakthrough, he said, may not come until the year 2000.

That breakthrough was felt, however, in only about half the state.

What's the breakthrough that will put 10 million on the road?

Until you get that breakthrough then everything's a one off.

But the 29-year-old is still waiting to make the breakthrough.

Whether that's enough for a Green breakthrough will have to be seen.

Both times, then and now, a major breakthrough was close.

Most important to me is that I can see if they're making a breakthrough.

He had thought, perhaps, that they might have made a breakthrough in the case.

"Because the lead I've got could be the breakthrough we need over here."