progression
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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
“That decrease in the weight definitely slows down progression of degeneration in the spine or in the joint.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The risk of disease progression or death was reduced by 51% in the study, the companies said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
They planned to stop if progression free survival at six months failed to improve by at least 20 percent compared with older studies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
In most styles of music, modulation is accomplished gradually, using a progression of chords that seems to move naturally towards the new key.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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
Park evokes all of this while maintaining an electrified focus on ordering the Captain's journey into pleasing progressions, like a jazz or funk solo on one of the many American soul songs he loves.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2024
Depending on your interests, you may also want to spend time creating pleasing chord progressions by choosing chords from the correct key that will complement a melody that you know.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Vocabulary lists containing progression
By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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