Speech and language development should be consistent with a child's overall development and can be tracked using typical milestone markers.
As President Barack Obama says, it is a "milestone" – a marker on a longer journey.
In this manner, the GDPR represents not a destination, but an important milestone — a marker that indicates how far we have come and how far we still have to go.
Besides, I feel pretty accomplished for my age: I'm doing well in the career I chose for myself, I am financially independent and I have wonderful friends, so I don't look at this year as a depressing milestone, a marker of time that has passed, potential wasted or opportunity squandered.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a true milestone, a marker of the growing global recognition that children should never be made instruments of adult conflicts and violence.
Romantic love has so many milestones and markers: engagement, marriage, ruby wedding anniversaries and the like.
I've accepted all of the milestones and markers that "growing up" bring.
Business Insider created a timeline of peak ages for all sorts of milestones, health markers, achievements and skills, with points ranging from which age is best for remembering names to when you're most adept at understanding emotions.
I know this is a milestone moment, a marker in my adulthood, a time to reflect on my achievements and my future goals, but for some reason, that type of celebration just doesn't sit well with me.
A milestone is a marker along a road that shows the distance one has come, and, if the destination is known, the distance yet to be traveled.
