Synonym: breakthrough, find, uncovering. Similar words: recovery, economic recovery, cover, discord, covert, discomfort, discount, discourse. Meaning: [dɪ'skʌvərɪ] n. 1. the act of discovering something 2. something that is discovered 3. a productive insight 4. (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case.
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(61) The jawbone was our most valuable find/discovery.
(62) The thief passed the day in fear of discovery.
(63) The discovery of new evidence forced a retrial.
(64) The press made much of the discovery.
(65) Few people realized the significance of the discovery.
(66) The discovery of gold in the valleys will enrich the poor mountain area.
(67) The discovery of gold brought a flood of prospectors into the Territories.
(68) She was shocked by the discovery that he had been unfaithful.
(69) This discovery disproved the idea that the world was flat.
(70) The discovery of a vaccine was the turning-point in the fight against smallpox.
(71) Perturbations in the orbit of the planet Uranus led to the discovery of Neptune in 1846.
(72) The discovery of America forms the beginning of a new period.
(73) The increase in the country's prosperity was due to the discovery of oil.
(74) The story tells of a man's journey of personal discovery up an African river.
(75) This discovery marks a quantum leap forward in the fight against cancer.
(76) The discovery of the election fraud has led to the annulment of 50 000 votes.
(77) She was universally/widely/publicly acclaimed for her contribution to the discovery.
(78) His discovery was hailed as the botanical find of the century.
(79) The discovery of the disease among sheep spells financial disaster for farmers.
(80) This is a new discovery that had a number of industrial applications.
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(82) Police are making house-to-house enquiries following the discovery of the body.
(83) The discovery of oil on their land made the people rapidly rich.
(84) This discovery may shake traditional theories on how mountains are formed.
(85) Gibbons failed to see the commercial value of his discovery.
(86) The discovery of oil put that country on the map.
(87) This discovery has opened up a whole new field of research.
(88) His job is the discovery and promotion of new artists.
(89) This discovery opens up new vistas of research for biologists.
(90) But the reality of discovery was a different matter, and he did all he could to stave it off.
More similar words: recovery, economic recovery, cover, discord, covert, discomfort, discount, discourse, covered, cover up, uncover, recover, discourage, coverage, discouraged, discordant, discomposure, discouragement, disconcerting, discontinuance, over and over, cove, viscous, covenant, disc, very, every, discern, discuss, discard.