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On the other, there’s a point when even the most progressive parent squirms when confronted with a moaning, breathless roll in the sheets on a 50-inch screen.

The Council, under Campbell, Williamson said, was not nearly as progressive as it acted.

He was also involved in the founding of Catalist, the flagship progressive data company.

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Key financial regulatory positions remain unfilled, and progressives oppose some leading candidates.

Today’s progressives are in danger of repeating my generation’s mistakes.

Weiss is likely to get confirmed even as Warren and a handful of other progressive Democrats vote no.

But now his politics were offending the progressive sensibilities of the American film industry.

They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.

Some imagine Senator Elizabeth Warren as the charismatic leader of a progressive version of the “tea party.”

Throughout the progressive movement, this sentiment is echoed almost everywhere.

The act, however, is a progressive piece of legislation and creates new conditions as the result of its own operation.

At first geologists were disposed to attribute all the phenomena of mountain-folding to the progressive cooling of the earth.

Science and revelation are therefore progressive, though in somewhat different ways.

In this section we can see how the progressive melting gradually brings the rocky débris into plain view.

I am too enlightened and progressive to feel comfortable in my own country, and that is why I spend so much time in England.

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On this page you'll find 83 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to progressive, such as: forward-looking, forward-thinking, left, left of center, leftist, and liberal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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