gain ground
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Health savings accounts continue to gain ground with Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But the one part of the market that has cooled are so-called momentum stocks, whose precise definitions vary but basically are bets that fast-rising stocks will continue to gain ground.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
However, firefighters were able to gain ground as temperatures cooled into the evening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
After Wimbledon, though, Draper has only 50 points to defend for the rest of the year, and so will have the chance to gain ground rapidly.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
But she always claimed she had done whatever it was she'd done to gain ground for us all.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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