make progress
idiom
: to move forward in one's work or activity
We're not finished yet, but we're making progress.
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California continues to make progress on building out its charging infrastructure for electric vehicles with the addition of thousands of new chargers.
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Nadia Lopez, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025
A little over a year on, the gloom is stalking their attempts to make progress.
—Chris Weatherspoon, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025
Both groups hope to use their techniques—which give them unprecedented control over elliptic curves and related equations—to make progress on other problems as well.
—Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2025
But the former Florida senator is now increasingly in the spotlight and facing growing pressure to make progress on some of Trump's key foreign policy goals, raising the stakes for his trip to Saudi Arabia and then Canada later in the week.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
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Nadia Lopez, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025
A little over a year on, the gloom is stalking their attempts to make progress.
—Chris Weatherspoon, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025
Both groups hope to use their techniques—which give them unprecedented control over elliptic curves and related equations—to make progress on other problems as well.
—Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2025
But the former Florida senator is now increasingly in the spotlight and facing growing pressure to make progress on some of Trump's key foreign policy goals, raising the stakes for his trip to Saudi Arabia and then Canada later in the week.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Make progress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20progress. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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