progressive
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Mark Joseph Stern: The speech is ostensibly bemoaning the progressive movement of the early 20th century, but the New Republic’s Matt Ford has a fantastic piece about how his history is completely wrong.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
Pope Francis was often seen as a spontaneous progressive, who sometimes alienated Catholic traditionalists - for example in his restrictions on Latin Mass, which Pope Leo has eased.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Mubi’s staff ballooned from about 40 people in 2020 to more than 400 in 2025, many of whom thought they were joining a progressive company.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
ALS, on the other hand, targets motor neurons, causing progressive muscle weakness that eventually leads to paralysis.
From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026
There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing progressive
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Drama
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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