progress
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NHS England's national medical director, Professor Frankie Swords, warned that despite the progress delivered by frontline teams, winter pressure was already building.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Some in China see calls to slow progress as hard to justify, "particularly given their perception that US measures such as export controls have already constrained China's AI development for years," they said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
They instead often raised expectations, forced dependency and gave rise to a vision of progress that reinforced social exclusion, bred anxieties about status, and concealed the environmental costs of a culture built on consumption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
As plans to cushion the closure’s impact progress, the exact root of the decision to shut down the airport is still hotly contested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
But to accelerate his progress, she began to speak to him in Spanish, coaxed him to take up his text, and tutored him, and within a short while he was receiving high grades.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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“It begins as fight choreography but as it progresses, it starts to get more expressionistic,” says Jeff Kuperman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
In fact, the pay bumps to move within the industry have been growing larger as the year progresses, she said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
As the film progresses, Herzog intimately considers humanity’s relationship to the insurmountable.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
"Combined interventions will be even more important as climate change progresses, especially as forest restoration can be particularly vulnerable to wildfires."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Oxidation progresses in a cycle like a turning wheel.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Los Angeles County Fire Department Incident Command “was unaware that the fire had progressed through west Altadena until the daylight hours on January 8, 2025,” the report read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
As reionization progressed, ultraviolet light was able to travel more freely through space, helping bring the universe's cosmic "dark ages" to an end.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
At times it almost prevented his son from pursuing a career in football, but Awoniyi progressed from the Imperial Soccer Academy to Liverpool before making his name in German football with Union Berlin.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
It couldn’t be determined if the deal progressed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
He’d confessed to me, last night, that he’d been secretly learning and practicing on his own these last couple of years, and I was blown away by how much he’d progressed all by himself.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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“Developments in robotics and AI are progressing at breakneck speed worldwide,” the government said when announcing its initiative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The stiffest competition comes on the wing, where the Lakers lauded their depth between offseason additions Quentin Grimes, Collin Sexton, Matisse Thybulle and Williams, rookie Cameron Carr and progressing second-year forward Adou Thiero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
AI companies expressed support for slowing the development of their cutting-edge models earlier this month, citing worries that it’s progressing at a rate faster than what humans can safely control.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
His understanding of the game is excellent, and that gives him a huge platform to keep progressing.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
When they arrived in the corridor they saw that there were only a dozen people progressing to N.E.W.T. level.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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