progress
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Firefighters made some progress taming the flames, allowing several thousand people to return to their homes on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Chief Executive Kelly Ortberg said he was pleased with the company's progress.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
The hope is that Gen Z will still achieve these milestones, potentially just a little later on, and that salaries and employment rates will recover as this group progress into their 30s.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The growth in Microsoft 365 Copilot seats, which are individual user licenses, will be another signal of the company’s progress on AI monetization.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
He was carried downstream, but he made progress across too.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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As diabetes progresses, however, beta cells increasingly struggle to meet the body's demand for insulin.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The miner can grow its output by up to 30% by 2028 as its Centinela second concentrator project progresses, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
With about a one-year lag, this suggests investors should anticipate slower EPS growth beginning now and a much more noticeable decline in the pace of EPS growth as the year progresses.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
One of the biggest strengths of “The Invite” is the way it keeps evolving as the night progresses so it never feels claustrophobic or repetitive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
It wasn’t a classical way to approach the game, and it leads to a very different configuration as the game progresses; but Bobby took the chance.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The huge fire raging in France's southwestern region of Gironde has not progressed overnight, the prefecture said early Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Muir said work is being progressed "as a priority" to develop a temporary cessation scheme to support permit holders affected by the closure of the yellow eel fishery.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
This summer, T-Mobile’s satellite usage represented just 0.0003% of total network usage, according to Osvaldik, who said it would drop even further as colder seasons progressed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
Asian equities pared gains as the trading day progressed, while Nasdaq futures dropped as chip makers that have driven market swings in recent days fell back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
As play progressed, though, they were stunned in a different way.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The staff acknowledged that patients who received and benefited from RP1 lived a median of 30.6 months without cancer progressing, versus 4.4 months on their prior immunotherapy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Yousif said prices and demand began easing shortly after US President Donald Trump announced last month that negotiations with Iran were progressing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Parallel to Byrd’s stirring public advocacy is a crucial personal thread: her nurturing of Shelly, whose progressing dementia requires regular supervision.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
With so many players deep, Norway often have an overload at the back making progressing up the pitch easier.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Shostakovich edged back from his previous gloom and dissonance, composing a more 'traditional’-style symphony of four contrasting movements, progressing in them from grim, layered anxiety in the first to a triumphant conclusion in the fourth.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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