The phrase "a breakthrough about" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to introduce a significant discovery or advancement related to a specific topic, but the preposition "about" is not the most appropriate choice in this context.
Example: "The researchers announced a breakthrough in cancer treatment."
Alternatives: "a breakthrough in" or "a breakthrough regarding".
In a later episode Alan Guth, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recalls the night he had a breakthrough about what might have fueled the Big Bang that started the universe.
Warner Brothers signed the group in 1990, and it scored a breakthrough about three years later with the single "She Don't Use Jelly," which climbed to No. 9 on Billboard's modern-rock tracks chart in January 1995 and led to an MTV video.
He'd been seeing a psychotherapist for a while, he says, but it wasn't until he started tripping on ayahuasca and DMT that he started to have a breakthrough about who he really was and how to be himself especially at work, where he felt like he was always pretending to be a more likable, corporate version of himself.
(The prize, which goes to a creator of a breakthrough innovation, pays about $1.5 million. In 2006, Shuji Nakamura won for inventing blue, green and white light-emitting diodes; finalists for the next award will be announced in April).
Confidence among supporters of the living wage that a breakthrough is about to be made has never been higher.
As Jackson and Kate sit in a Bentley about to drop out of the back of a low-flying military cargo plane onto a plateau atop the Himalayas, for example, they have a breakthrough realization about their failed marriage.
A breakthrough came about one lazy summer afternoon when Freak Frohman and I were netting crayfish in the Bronx River, and he turned to me and said, "Maybe that stuff my father squirts in his drink could be the propulsive agent we're looking for".
Despite a breakthrough later about her own worth with Bob, the damage was done, and Chris gained two pounds on the scale.
It was at Tesco that an old colleague had an emotional breakthrough about her relationship with her father.
Some now say Modi, who has no need to prove his conservative credentials, could bring about a breakthrough.
Evans then appeared and at great length explained how the feat they witnessed was possible, and was convinced that the chance visit would bring about a breakthrough with the Brandywine millers.
