progressive

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It is an inherited, rare, progressive and incurable condition.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

“What we didn’t like about progressive rock was that it was too flamboyant without substance,” Pack told The Times in 1999.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

The company plans to seek priority FDA review for Tyvaso to treat IPF, a chronic, progressive lung disease.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Anyone with dementia, Parkinson’s or another progressive disease will face crippling costs just to get through each day.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

The real historical puzzle, we might think, is not this eighteenth-century loss of belief in witches and demons, but the progressive re-enchantment of the world in the nineteenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton