progressive
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In defenders Harry Maguire and Lisandro Martinez, United have punchy progressive passers from deep too.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
It earned plaudits from Questlove and Snoop Dogg, won a Grammy for progressive R&B album, and hung on as the record business imploded and rebuilt in the streaming era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
A progressive capitalist, he nonetheless earned the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America and has joined New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as lefty vanguards and prime think-piece fodder.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, faces former Rep. Mike Rogers, whom my colleague Jim Newell describes as “a buttoned-up, country-club Republican from the George W. Bush era.”
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
Born with a hereditary condition that caused a progressive loss of vision, Fisher had become nearly blind by his early teens.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
But as excitement over his campaign began to mount among progressives on a national level, Ryan said, El-Sayed’s public posture swung to a middle ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Efforts to unfreeze the market before its natural thaw are where conservatives and progressives are finding common ground.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 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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