progress

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These are not novels that pull you forward so much as hold you in place—patient, thorough evocations of a vanished world, almost Proustian at times, especially as they progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"It suggests new ways to intervene before patients progress to severe inflammation that can require intubation."

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

But that’s because he’s confident you’ll leave bursting with thoughts and feelings about the price of progress, the weight of history and the ways we struggle to do right amid so much that’s wrong.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

President Donald Trump updated Americans on the progress of the Iran war in an address to the nation on Wednesday night.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

This was something I could hardly admit to myself, let alone her, so I intentionally stalled my progress to have a reason to come back.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman