progression
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In a phase one clinical trial sponsored by RS Oncology, LLC, patients with relapsed mesothelioma received an experimental drug that controlled disease progression in 67% of participants.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
In 2025/26, the Department for Education paid 57 social media influencers, who worked on campaigns including supporting career progression for young people, providing parents with childcare advice and recruiting more teachers.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Another way he adapted the game was in the progression of weaponry available for the hero.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Life is measured in mileposts, a steady progression through the rites of passage that delineate the mortal journey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Play the same progressions in different keys and listen to how that does and also does not change the sound of the progression.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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He later told me that the work represented “a new door opening” within his system for musical structures that are independent from standard harmonic progressions, and that maintain “a smooth, frictionless groove.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Then it became just this thing during sound check or maybe in the middle of sets, we’d just start jamming these random progressions and stuff, and it kind of just evolved from there naturally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
And then he wrote this song that kind of had some similar chord progressions in it.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
Park evokes all of this while maintaining an electrified focus on ordering the Captain's journey into pleasing progressions, like a jazz or funk solo on one of the many American soul songs he loves.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2024
Extensive study and practice are needed to be able to identify and understand these more complex progressions.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Vocabulary lists containing progression
By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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Common Core Grades 7–8, List 5
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Common Core Grade 6, List 4
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