Word Finder - progress

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Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.

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Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.

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Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.

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Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

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An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.

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A journey forward; travel.

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Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.

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The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.

Just about time I think the two of you are making progress, something like this comes up.

Progress is being made.

Katie asked her about the progress on the horse ranch.

Not that they needed a progress report.

I asked Daniel Brennan if there was any progress in the Bryce case.

They were making no progress in their relationship.

It has been justly observed by many that this continuous cyclical movement entirely excludes the progress of humanity towards a better future.

She has made considerable progress in the study of arithmetic.

Instead of science proceeding at the slow speed of time, the only limit on its progress will be processor speed—and those two speeds hardly can be compared.

As much progress as we've made, we still haven't proved his visions represent real happenings.

That's progress, isn't it?

No, but we're making progress.

Nevertheless, much progress has been made.

Later that evening, while Dean and his stepfather were filling their faces with apple pie and ice cream and feeling sorry for them­selves about their lack of progress in finding Byrne, a young man strolled up to them with a smile on his face.

It was a work in progress.

Dean was making progress.

Its eastern progress was also rapid.

Progress is widely distributed.

The industry made rapid progress.

On this question negotiations are still in progress.

Slave labour disappeared, and under new and more promising auspices a fresh career of progress began.

The whole progress of the phenomenon is thus exhibited to the eye in a very instructive manner.

She had not, but sounded in a much cheerier mood, giving Dean a five-minute update on her school progress.

They were making some progress, but she should desire him.

Jacques was the first outcome of the journey to Italy, and in precision and splendour of style it marks a distinct progress.

It was almost inevitable that she should find herself in the centre of political aspirations and presiding over a company of the most talented men of progress.

But progress was made difficult, in consequence of the clumsy and irregular nomenclature employed.

Progress is the result of adaptation, rather than reconstruction.

On reviewing the progress of ornithology since the end of the 18th century, the first thing that will strike us is the fact that general works, though still undertaken, have become proportionally fewer, while special works, whether relating to the ornithic portion of the fauna of any particular country, or limited to certain groups of birds - works to which the name of " Monograph " has become wholly restricted - have become far more numerous.

Still it seems advisable to furnish some connected account of the progress made in the ornithological knowledge of the British Islands and those parts of the European continent which lie nearest to them or are most commonly sought by travellers, the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America, South Africa, India, together with Australia and New Zealand.

These views he shared more or less with Vigors and Swainson, and to them attention will be immediately especially invited, while consideration of the scheme gradually developed from 1831 onward by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and still not without its influence, is deferred until we come to treat of the rise and progress of what we may term the reformed school of ornithology.

That every natural series of beings, in its progress from a given point, either actually returns, or evinces a tendency to return, again to that point, thereby forming a circle.

During the progress of the works, however, he acted as surveyor, and accumulated in that lucrative employment a sum of several thousand pounds, discovered after his death in an old iron chest, which had evidently lain unopened for above thirty years.

After the adoption of the North-West Ordinance the work of settlement made rapid progress.

A small company of Connecticut people under Moses Cleaveland founded Cleveland in 17 9 6 and Youngstown was begun a few years later, but that portion of the state made very slow progress until after the opening of the Ohio & Erie Canal in 1832.

After visiting Luther at Wittenberg, he settled with his amanuensis William Roy in Cologne, where he had made some progress in printing a 4to edition of his New Testament, when the work was discovered by John Cochlaeus, dean at Frankfurt, who not only got the senate of Cologne to interdict further printing, but warned Henry VIII.

In the history of the science, various lines of progress have to be traced.

From the end of the 18th century until the present day, it is only possible to enumerate the outstanding features in the progress of entomology.

When Augustine proposed this task he had already planned and made some progress with his own De civitate Dei; it is the same argument that is elaborated by his disciple, namely, the evidence from history that the circumstances of the world had not really become worse since the introduction of Christianity.

At the close of the war in 1815 the revival of trade led to an increased demand, and the progress of cotton cultivation in America became rapid and continuous, until at length about 85% of the raw material used by English manufacturers was derived from this one source.

The Trans-Caspian railway has been an important factor; almost all the cotton exported passes over this line, and the statistics of this trade indicate the progress made.

By the time he left the office for the ten-minute walk across the square to the courthouse, he felt com­fortable with the progress of the case.

So far, you're the only one making any progress.

During the progress of these operations the A operator connects the originating subscriber to the junction circuit named by the B operator.

This arrangement permits particulars of calls to be passed over lines while conversations are in progress.

Large as this progress was it would have been much greater if the Telephone Company had been granted adequate powers to put wires underground and thus instal a complete metallic circuit in place of the single wire, earthreturn, circuit which it was constrained to employ.

Subsequently the progress was still greater.

Much of this lack of progress is attributed to the heavy manual (especially agricultural) work undertaken by women and children.

The Italian Federation of Agrarian Unions has greatly contributed to agricultural progress.

The industrial progress of Italy has been great since 1880.