progression
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This is despite a 30-12 defeat by Tonga in their opening game which has put England's chances of progression to the semi-finals in danger.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
These studies found that supplementation could interfere with cellular changes associated with cancer and slow the progression of leukemia.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Interestingly, as his career progressed, Lichtenstein seems to have become more interested in channeling art history—a progression that is the inverse of most artists’.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The government says it will expand the use of so-called "blitz" or "short trial" courts after pilots have shown that grouping similar cases together can speed up their progression through the courts - cutting backlogs.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The essence of Darwin’s disruptive genius was his ability to think about nature not as fact—but as process, as progression, as history.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The 20-year-old has shown poise in the pocket, patience when going through progressions and ability to throw to receivers open anywhere on the field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
After revisiting Edgard Varèse’s music, he built upon Varèse’s ideas about building and extending musical structures that are independent from standard harmonic progressions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
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
I listened intensely, aware of the form and movement of sentences and grasping the now subtle rhythmical differences between progressions of sound that questioned and those that made a statement.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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Vocabulary lists containing progression
By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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