progressive
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Piker: Look, Sherrod Brown is probably one of the more progressive Democrats, and he was a resilient force in Ohio politics for decades.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Lawrence, 36, made a career of activism before running for office as a progressive candidate.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Geffray said the number of schools affected on Monday would be comparable to the figure from Friday but vowed there would be a "partial, progressive return to lessons".
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
In 2011, Joe Kay debuted Soulection as a college radio show at Cal State Long Beach, spinning rare B-sides, progressive beats, inventive flips of classic records and soulful underground tracks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Among the most progressive alienists, this kind of unfounded belief was known as a delusion, associated with a newly identified disorder called paranoia.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Libertarians, social conservatives, progressives, socialists and others could all make a pitch for whatever rights they favored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Piker, who earlier this year appeared on the campaign trail with El-Sayed, is a major influence among progressives and a boogeyman to establishment Republicans and Democrats alike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
She has helped draw an entire generation of progressives into politics, and totally changed the game for young people, young women, and democratic socialists.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Win or lose, progressives and centrists will debate the meaning of this race for some time to come.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Middle-class progressives, disgusted by the corrupt politics of both Thompson and Sweitzer, threw their weight behind an independent reformer.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
Vocabulary lists containing progressive
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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