- present participle of advance.
advancing
- aggressive adj.
- approaching adj.
- broadening adj.
- coming adj.
- continuing adj.
- cultural adj.
- cumulative adj.
- en route adj.
- enterprising adj.
- increasing adj.
- long-lived adj.
- maturing adj.
- moving adj.
- nearing adj.
- oncoming adj.
- ongoing adj.
- perdurable adj.
- progressive adj.
- revolutionary adj.
- rising adj.
- thriving adj.
- underway adj.
- ahead adv.
- development n.
- suggesting n.
- unfolding n.
Example Sentences
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At the closest checkpoint to the front line, we met some fighters who had just returned from positions high on the mountain, just a few hundred metres from advancing Houthis.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
The effort to digitally recover writing from Herculaneum's scrolls has been advancing for years.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
“Anthropic is advancing the AI revolution and we are thrilled they chose Akamai’s capabilities for building and operating AI infrastructure at scale,” Akamai Chief Executive Tom Leighton said Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Meta has been working on advancing artificial intelligence efforts for more than a decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
He was leaping around Basta faster and faster, ducking, retreating, advancing, but suddenly he found that his fearless dance had trapped him.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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