Sentence:  In a culmination of 50 years of theoretical speculation and three weeks of intense media frenzy, two teams of researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research said they had independently discovered evidence for a "<WSD>Higgs-like</WSD>" boson, the long-sought elementary particle that gives mass to the universe. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (of a particle) Similar in mass and other properties to the proposed Standard Model Higgs boson.