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noun

a stone functioning as a milepost.

a significant event or stage in the life, progress, development, or the like of a person, nation, etc.: Her getting the job of supervisor was a milestone in her career.

Origin:
1740–50; mile + stone

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Whatever else happened, the milestone of completing the doctorate would buoy my spirits.

But its significance is deeper and wider than that of being a mere historical milestone.

Mapping milestone emphasizes complexity of disease.

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Whatever else happened, the milestone of completing the doctorate would buoy my spirits.

But its significance is deeper and wider than that of being a mere historical milestone.

Mapping milestone emphasizes complexity of disease.

It seems only reasonable that there would be some type of publicity for this milestone.

The growing movement to host a presidential debate focused on science has reached a new milestone.

News survey form struck me the same way, as a kind of milestone.

For all that, they represent an important milestone on the road to the future.

But new research today shows that the milestone has been a mixed bag for one.

Illumina has also agreed to make an additional equity investment upon the achievement of a specific technical milestone.

And already two signposts to the next milestone have come into view.

And so this discovery is fundamental and a milestone for cosmology.

Three years later than planned, this milestone is likely to be met.

The milestone itself isn't nearly as significant as the trend.

The world's population is thought to have reached that milestone on his birthday.

It could turn out to be a milestone for quantum computing.

Dubai's repudiation of that implicit guarantee marks an important milestone.

These universities have reached an important milestone in making renewables a potential source of base load energy.

That's one more milestone in an extraordinary run that began over a decade ago.

Until that milestone is reached, it can only be said to be conceived.

Scientists have achieved what they describe as a major milestone in animal genetics: decoding the genome of the cow.

Commemorate an important year or a milestone event with a framed copy of the magazine.

The significant milestone marks the first time engineers.

Officials crow at each new speed milestone and each dramatic reduction in intercity-travel times.

The milestone was reached after many years of many people working hard to restore the native frog to habitat where it has.

While it's a significant milestone for the roadster, that car also.

But for these young people, the real milestone would be to find something to do next.

The actual date is a bit fuzzy, but the milestone has.

The grim milestone demonstrates that, even though the recession is apparently over, for the average worker it remains in force.

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Publishers hope the milestone will bring exposure to the e-book industry.

Submit your questions, comments or congratulations now for the chance to have it included during this milestone event.

Making it to the summit will be no small feat and another milestone in the development of electric motorcycles.

The repayment is another milestone in its staged retreat from the banking industry.

Milestone dates in the invention of the astronomical telescope.

The next important milestone will be the demonstration of twisted radio transmission in noisy, real-world conditions.

It's a milestone that's been almost thirty years in the making.

But the earlier milestone will be the one that grabs attention.

Still, the designation of the site is a milestone in a painfully slow process of rebuilding a country shaken to its core.

Education contributes to learning, which is a milestone on the way to wisdom.

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milestone (ˈmaɪlˌstəʊn)

—n
1.	a stone pillar that shows the distance in miles to or from a place
2.	a significant event in life, history, etc

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milestone

1746, from mile + stone (n.).

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