inroad
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“Millions of dollars have been spent on ranges, tracking dogs, cameras, helicopters, fancy alarms and fences, and none of it was bending the curve or making a significant inroad in reducing poaching,” Kuiper said.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025
Sale had moments of possession but they conceded eight turnovers and failed to make an inroad on the scoreboard as De Wet and Venter scored further tries for Stormers.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025
"These findings bolster prior work that facial stereotypes may have disastrous effects in the real world, but, more importantly, provide a potential inroad toward combating these sorts of biases," Freeman said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2023
Jackson may not live in Los Angeles anymore, but her memories of these dead-end streets provided a surprising inroad into how intimacy is still a very abstract construct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
He could provision the safari for the whole of the homeward journey, and yet make a scarcely sensible inroad upon the resources of the people.
From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang
Vocabulary lists containing inroad
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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Uglies
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United States v. Nixon (1974)
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