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advance

[ad-vans, -vahns] / ædˈvæns, -ˈvɑns /












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He added that when our reporter proposed putting his business into someone else's name, Alias had told him in writing he could not advance an untruthful or dishonest case and did not act for him.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

This was so noticeable and awkward that at one point Sullivan asked the moderators if anyone had received questions in advance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But any bad blood between the two didn’t stop Becerra from continuing to advance within the party ranks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The achievement, made by an international research team that includes scientists from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, represents a major advance in precision cosmology.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

This meant that ordinary sentences and phrases had been given secret meanings, agreed upon in advance.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Schmidt points out that the rapid advances made by the Chinese have been made probably because “they have used chips that they were not supposed to have” that were “pilfered or smuggled” into China.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The advances are forcing those in the field to wonder whether this spells the end of mathematical research.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

One of the study's most important advances came from the way researchers analyzed the brain scans.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

“That momentum, and the advances we are making on our innovation agenda, give us real confidence heading into 2027 and beyond,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The International Monetary Fund at its annual meeting last week warned sophisticated attacks using advanced AI programs represent a new threat to financial stability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Of that, $23.9 billion in revenue came from advanced connectivity-service offerings, translating to 6.1% growth.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

I wanted the album to feel more like an advanced version of “Romance,” where the body of the record had become more bionic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

As the PKK process has advanced, the Kurdish militants destroyed weapons at a symbolic ceremony last year, and this month, withdrew from four key bases in northern Iraq in a move confirmed by Turkish intelligence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

“To use the language of chess,” Khrushchev said of these maneuvers, “the Americans had advanced a pawn, so we protected our position by moving a knight.”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Ushakov also told reporters that President Putin reiterated to Witkoff that Russian troops were advancing everywhere across the vast front line and had a "strategic initiative".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Such capabilities could reveal previously inaccessible details about interactions between molecules and surfaces, while laying the groundwork for engineering new quantum states of matter and advancing future molecular quantum technologies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Major General Wade Rutland told reporters that during "an outdoor exercise on the Alberta prairie," soldiers were caught off guard by the advancing flames.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

In the eighth, with one out, Will Smith cut out the middle man by doubling into the right-field corner and advancing to third when Milwaukee’s Sal Frelick misplayed the carom off the wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

They could see only the blur of an advancing shadow beneath the waves.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell


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