progressive
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Last year, she told The Times that Bass is the most progressive mayor in city history.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Trailing behind him is Steyer - a progressive billionaire climate activist who has poured millions from his own fortune into the race - with 1.3m votes.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Voila, Ms. Bass brokered a compromise with her progressive City Council to delay the $30 an hour minimum by two years and phase in increases more slowly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Harvie won handily in his primary, but Baines, in the California primary on Tuesday, was trailing her progressive opponent, Randy Villegas, at the time of writing, though the race was too close to call.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
If it is in the nature of living things to pool resources, to fuse when possible, we would have a new way of accounting for the progressive enrichment and complexity of form in living things.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing progressive
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Drama
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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