Antonyms for breakthrough
ˈbreɪkˌθrubreak·through

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1. • Discovery
   • Insight
   • Penetration

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1. discovery, breakthrough, findnoun

   a productive insight

   Synonyms:
   uncovering, find, discovery

2. breakthroughnoun

   making an important discovery

   Synonyms:
   find, discovery

3. breakthroughnoun

   a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense

   Synonyms:
   find, discovery

How to use breakthrough in a sentence?

1. Amesh Adalja:

   I think it is pretty easy to say if you are fully vaccinated, the breakthrough you get with Omicron is going to be milder, even if this gets around some of our vaccine-induced protection, it is not an all-or-done effect.

2. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

   The work goes on. You are going to see ministers coming and going to maintain the momentum of these discussions. I don't think we're at any kind of breakthrough moment yet and we will do whatever we need to do to keep the momentum.

3. Amy Edwards:

   If we want breakthrough cases to stop, then we need to have everybody else get vaccinated, so there's no virus in circulation and then it won't matter anymore.

4. Arjun Chaudhary:

   It’s not a technical breakthrough that needs to happen to make this a reality, it’s more a policy issue.

5. Chief Frank Paauw:

   The hostage played a sort of hero's role by, in that split second that he had, forcing a breakthrough in this situation, otherwise it could have been a very long and unpleasant night and maybe longer.

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