progress
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These are not novels that pull you forward so much as hold you in place—patient, thorough evocations of a vanished world, almost Proustian at times, especially as they progress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
But in March, Indeed’s Job Postings Index did lose steam, giving back the majority of the progress gained over the prior four months.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
"It suggests new ways to intervene before patients progress to severe inflammation that can require intubation."
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
But that’s because he’s confident you’ll leave bursting with thoughts and feelings about the price of progress, the weight of history and the ways we struggle to do right amid so much that’s wrong.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
“I tell her of your progress in my letters; you have quite a fan in her.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.