progressive
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Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurological disorder that affects nearly one million Americans.
From Science Daily • Jun. 28, 2026
Mamdani’s victory last year and the congressional primary wins Tuesday, they argued, show the progressive movement can’t be written off.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026
It was founded as a Sixties utopia "where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony" without money or religious strife in southern India.
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
A native of Toronto, Dean started her media career as a disc jockey playing progressive rock.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
Thus knowledge, in so far as we have it, is not absolute but progressive, not definitive but provisional.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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