progressive
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Bass will now face off against progressive City Council candidate Nithya Raman on the November ballot.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Maybe a spoof doesn’t have to be consistently funny or ideologically progressive to be enjoyable, and anyone who demands those things should just close the door and forget what they’ve seen.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
Incumbent Democrat Karen Bass was up against progressive City Council member Nithya Raman and Pratt, who is a registered Republican.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
He was ultimately edged out by the incumbent Karen Bass and progressive Nithya Raman, who will both advance to the general election.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Sophisticated printed illustrations based on perspective drawings thus turned anatomy into a progressive science, where each generation of anatomists was able to identify mistakes and oversights in the work of their predecessors.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing progressive
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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