progress
Example Sentences
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It resonates more with the progress bar instead of the buffering icon.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026
These are not novels that pull you forward so much as hold you in place—patient, thorough evocations of a vanished world, almost Proustian at times, especially as they progress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
SpaceX's Starship has continued to show progress through recent successful tests.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
"I like the fact that in space, we are committed to bold goals to the extent that we will not let periodic failure stop our forward progress," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
But despite all our progress, the US space program wasn’t moving fast enough.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.