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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
progress .
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Examples
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I sure hope Palin "progresses" in her effort to start a third party.
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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
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[AY] There is a tunnel for that, inside the ribosome, through which the newly-born protein progresses until it emerges out of the ribosome.
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But as the case progresses is he starts understanding his duty in different terms.
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But as the case progresses is he starts understanding his duty in different terms.
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But as the case progresses is he starts understanding his duty in different terms.
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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.
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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
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As this hole progresses from the tee to the green, it becomes more narrow and demanding.
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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.
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