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advance

[ad-vans, -vahns] / ædˈvæns, -ˈvɑns /












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In June 2022, the City Council voted to advance a project put forth by the Venice Community Housing and Hollywood Community Housing Corp. and the city’s housing department signed a development agreement with those developers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The S&P 500 is still sitting on a solid gain of around 8% for the year, with a 13% advance booked so far for the second quarter.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

SK Hynix on Monday separately struck a multiyear technology agreement with Nvidia to advance next-generation memory chips for the global AI infrastructure buildout and accelerate semiconductor design and manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Although the experiments were performed under carefully controlled laboratory conditions and remain limited to nanoscale systems, the work represents an important advance from theoretical predictions to real-world demonstration.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Against all odds, it seemed, the battle turned the tide against the Germans, stopped their advance, saved Paris, and came to be known as “the Miracle of the Marne.”

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman




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