progressive
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New York state, meanwhile, has a progressive income tax that tops out at around 10.9%, among the highest state taxes in the country.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
Tax Foundation reports the U.S. tax system is progressive, with the top 1% paying 27% of federal taxes in 2022.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
At the time, some progressive state lawmakers had concerns that tougher penalties wouldn’t reduce crime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
“It’s been a progressive layering of colors, furniture, reupholstering, adding art, wallpaper, lighting,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
It transforms science from knowledge of the truth, regarded as indisputable, into a form of progressive knowledge in which established truths may always be disputed and in which an ultimate truth is never attained.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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