breakthroughs
BRAYK-throoz/ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuːz/
- 1Plural of breakthrough. Use this form when you mean more than one big step forward.
The lab celebrated several major breakthroughs this year.
New breakthroughs in medicine help people live longer.
Note
breakthroughs is a form of breakthrough
breakthrough, noun: An important success or discovery that gets past a big problem. Full entry
- Forms
- breakthroughbreakthroughs plural
- Spelling
- breakthrough → breakthroughs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with breakthroughs, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.