progressive
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The Michigander spent years as a top aide to progressive ex-Rep.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books and other progressive subjects.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
We see how the form of a finial was generated by the progressive subdivision of a square, precisely the same process by which the mason would incise and cut his stone.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Flanking Bass on the left is Nithya Raman, a progressive City Council member who was once the mayor’s political ally.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
His sermons were given in a small Catholic church—St. Jean Bosco in Port-au-Prince—which had become the progressive, liberation theology church in Haiti.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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