- present tense form of progress (3rd person singular).
progresses
Example Sentences
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"We need therapies that don't just mask pain but actually change how the disease progresses."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
“It begins as fight choreography but as it progresses, it starts to get more expressionistic,” says Jeff Kuperman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“That doesn’t match up with people’s actual spending patterns,” he said, since people typically have variable needs and wants as retirement progresses.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
As the film progresses, Herzog intimately considers humanity’s relationship to the insurmountable.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Similar to other sequenced learning approaches, such as Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development or scaffolding, Gordon’s approach relies on a gradual increase in skill level difficulty as the student progresses.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
