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English word

progress

A2Frequent NGSL-2
UK /ˈprəʊɡres/US /ˈprɑːɡres/
noun

the process of improving or developing, or of getting nearer to achieving or completing something

verb

to improve or develop over a period of time; to make progress

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Sentence 46 · Pro
Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)
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So then, what are the limiting factors on progress?

Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)

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So uh, essentially, I was trying to figure out why we had not made more progress since Apollo—uh—in the 1960s.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders LectureSentence 74 · Pro

Sometimes the right thing to do is to throw out the old schools of thought in the name of progress and reform.

Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech (2022)Sentence 153 · Pro

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