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

"It suggests new ways to intervene before patients progress to severe inflammation that can require intubation."

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Forensic analysis was unable to identify the author, but the force said the letter contained details it was "very keen to progress".

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Among the Greek officials who gathered at the wreck site to observe the progress was Minister Spyridon Stais, the man who commissioned Kontos and his crew to conduct the excavation.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler