progression
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“Assuming even a modestly successful progression of Starship launches, Starlink capacity should be a non-issue.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
In a phase one clinical trial sponsored by RS Oncology, LLC, patients with relapsed mesothelioma received an experimental drug that controlled disease progression in 67% of participants.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
The earlier results suggested that a high dose of the therapy slowed disease progression by 75% compared with a historical database of patients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
It proposed instead to "demonstrate how different life and career choices may affect repayment trajectories", including salary progression, retraining, part-time work, and career breaks.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Which chord in the key has been left out of the progression?
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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
“I thought he got through some progressions really well.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
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
Harmonic analysis is also necessary for anyone who wants to be able to compose reasonable chord progressions or to study and understand the music of the great composers.
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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Common Core Grades 7–8, List 5
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