progressively

Example Sentences

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His Sunday show appearances have grown progressively more painful to watch.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

Part of this is accounted for by changing consumer habits since the pandemic as people are have spent progressively less time at home and returned to life outside.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

Trade winds tend to blow east-to-west, and heat from the Sun progressively warms the waters as they move in this direction.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

That figure gets progressively lower for cheaper types of hotels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

In 1768, the Berlin embryologist Caspar Wolff tried to finesse an answer by concocting a guiding principle—vis essentialis corporis, as he called it—that progressively shepherded the maturation of a fertilized egg into a human form.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee