advancement
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But here’s your daily reminder that humans are primates whose still-evolving brains are exponentially outpaced by technological advancement.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
One advancement that could especially help solar roofs is matrix shingling technology.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Further, “lethal injection involves individuals with health care training, giving it a sheen of modernity, technological advancement, even sophistication.”
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
All technological advancement has a down side, after we made the first car we saw the first car crash, “but we didn’t ban cars—we adopted speed limits.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Of course for some Everesters myriad other, less virtuous, motives came into play, as well: minor celebrity, career advancement, ego massage, ordinary bragging rights, filthy lucre.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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By the ‘40s and ‘50s, the postwar home and its many accouterments — powered by wartime advancements, growing abundance and an ethos of “buy now, pay later” — amplified the promise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He later told the BBC the people working on the technology were "genuinely frightened" about the speed of its advancements and what it could mean for humanity.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
But the dramatic advancements made in AI over the last several years has finally made it something that scares people almost as much as nuclear weapons or the hand of God.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
A documentary offers a history of cystic fibrosis and the medical advancements in combatting it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
All the advancements of art and science—electricity, the internal combustion engine, the theory of relativity, cubism—had to be explained, and even then they often didn’t make sense.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Vocabulary lists containing advancement
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 9
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