progressive
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Japan makes more revenue from Australian gas - by taxing imports - than Australia itself does, according to progressive public policy think tank the Australia Institute.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Turner said in a 2018 interview with CBS that he had Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder that he said made him tired and forgetful.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Incumbent Eunisses Hernandez seeks a second term in City Council District 1, facing a quartet of challengers who say her progressive record has failed the neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
“Even candidates that wouldn’t have traditionally been a progressive or populist candidate have started adopting some of this language,” Martin said.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
Each of these recurrent exposures, no matter how slight, contributes to the progressive buildup of chemicals in our bodies and so to cumulative poisoning.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing progressive
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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