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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of progress.

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Examples

  • I sure hope Palin "progresses" in her effort to start a third party.

    Huckabee warns Palin: Don't leave GOP 2009

  • The point of Sam Sacks's essay, it seems to me, was precisely to protest the creation of these rules in the first place, to point out the insipidity of such formulas as A Story, as it progresses, is counterbalanced by a Backstory, which informs the reader what of importance happened beforehand.

    Narrative Strategies 2009

  • [AY] There is a tunnel for that, inside the ribosome, through which the newly-born protein progresses until it emerges out of the ribosome.

    Ada E. Yonath - Interview 2009

  • But as the case progresses is he starts understanding his duty in different terms.

    Is That Legal?: July 2006 Archives 2006

  • But as the case progresses is he starts understanding his duty in different terms.

    Is That Legal?: In the Shadow of the Law 2006

  • But as the case progresses is he starts understanding his duty in different terms.

    Is That Legal?: Books Archives 2006

  • I think that early-term abortion ought to be every bit as non-controversial as you claim, but as the term progresses, it becomes more complicated.

    Lean Left » Blog Archive » How Not To Debate Abortion 2006

  • The story tracks Lee, a not-quite-right young woman with a penchant for automutilation, as she enters into an S&M relationship (with her employer, no less!) that looks pretty creepy at the outset but, as the movie progresses, is revealed as a pretty thoroughly positive thing for both of them.

    Of Human Bondage 2004

  • As this hole progresses from the tee to the green, it becomes more narrow and demanding.

    USATODAY.com - Hole descriptions 2001

  • According to this view of how the diencephalon plays a decisive role in activity which progresses from the part to the whole, it will come as no surprise if still other observations could be made which lead in another direction.

    Walter Hess - Nobel Lecture 1964

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