make advances
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"You need hypotheses that are linguistically informed to make advances in neurolinguistics. There's so much interest in the years before Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed, to see if it can be caught and its progression stopped."
From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024
More centrist Black politicians tend to think that the best way to make advances in policy, particularly on issues that disproportionately affect Black people, is by working incrementally through traditional power structures.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023
Those representing the dominant player in the market would contend that their growth has allowed them to innovate and make advances that greatly benefit consumers.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2023
"Don't underestimate the Ukrainian's ability to surprise," a senior US military officer told me early this summer, just as Russia was continuing to make advances in the Donbas.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2022
For this reason, when visitors tried to make advances to John he was sullen, and they, feeling that for some reason he disliked them, retaliated by deciding that he was a “funny” child.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
