How to Use advancement in a Sentence

advancement

noun
  • A motor inside the camera is used for advancement of the film.
  • This new method is a great advancement over past techniques.
  • She contributed greatly to the advancement of the new organization.
  • He is being considered for advancement.
  • The program supports economic advancement in rural areas.
  • The job offers many opportunities for professional advancement.
  • But in a period of rapid advancement such as this, any tool can have a hard time keeping up.
    Ann-Marie Alcántara, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
  • China has shown quick advancement in space technology over the past year.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Part of this is because women take on more of the unpaid labor of having children and maintaining a home, which can eat into time available for work and energy for career advancement.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Yet a century of construction advancement allowed builders in the early 1900s to expand room sizes and open spaces more to the outdoors.
    oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The year 2023 brought a flurry of pivotal advancements to the field of genomics.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • But the advancement of AI has a lot of folks asking questions about the future.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Your friend is in the building stage of her career and this fling poses a threat to her advancement, even if all goes well.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
  • Samsung saved this year’s biggest advancements for the flip phone.
    Allison Johnson, The Verge, 26 July 2023
  • With its advancement in the House, it is expected to head to DeSantis's desk.
    Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 2 May 2023
  • But what the team may lack in training advancements, the Wolves made up for in talent and enthusiasm.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
  • As a tradeoff, the RTO crusade could come at the expense of the company’s own talent and tech advancements.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
  • This is where trends start and inventions that drive our future advancement are spawned.
    Sarah Davanzo, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Here’s a rundown of the latest intriguing advancements in the lupus space.
    Markham Heid, TIME, 27 Dec. 2023
  • After a Phoenix timeout and an advancement of the ball in front of the Suns bench, Saric inbounded the ball to Johnson on the sideline closer to the baseline.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2023
  • And the future of a primate species mankind has relied upon for medical advancement hangs in the balance.
    Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The letter hints at the broader discomfort inside and outside the industry with the rapid pace of advancement in AI.
    Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Thanks to these advancements, the droid can now sort and un-sort different colored blocks, even with a human trying to distract it.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The Cybertruck’s design, including its stainless steel panels, seem to fly in the face of those advancements.
    Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2024
  • This will never happen, due to the advancement of technology and the advancement of tactics and the changing of war.
    Jacob Tackett, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
  • Dragan explains how this shift has led to advancements and explores the challenges that remain.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2024
  • After more than a year of war and roughly six months of intense warfare around the Donetsk city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces have begun to see some advancement over the last week.
    Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 17 May 2023
  • And that advancements in prosthetics have allowed amputees to take a far more active role than what may have been possible in the past.
    Natalie Morales, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
  • This technological advancement enables musicians to explore a broader sonic palette, pushing the boundaries of traditional music genres into universes never before explored.
    Victoria Chynoweth, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024

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