progression
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"It's not a linear progression," said CEO Robert Isom.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The trial showed the Etcamah combination reduced the risk of disease progression or death versus the standard-of-care treatment, and the study will continue to assess whether patients’ survival rates improve, it added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
It also suppressed several other biological pathways associated with the progression of tauopathy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
With survival the aim for Daniel Farke's side last season, now it is all about progression.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Might they somehow have an inkling of the long evolutionary progression from genes to brains to libraries that has occurred on the obscure planet Earth?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Then it became just this thing during sound check or maybe in the middle of sets, we’d just start jamming these random progressions and stuff, and it kind of just evolved from there naturally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
He sings with an unusual drawl that connects to the diction of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, and his compact melodies and tightly structured chord progressions put his voice and lyrics in the foreground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
And then he wrote this song that kind of had some similar chord progressions in it.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
"As a fundamental principle in music composition, it is necessary to combine temporal sequences from tension-building to resolution in various scales, from harmonic progressions to entire movements," Nagai writes.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2024
My progressions are insane, certainly not an advertisement of ability—more like an accounting of a ceramic shop after an earthquake.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Vocabulary lists containing progression
By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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Common Core Grades 7–8, List 5
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Common Core Grade 6, List 4
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