How to Use make progress in a Sentence

make progress

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  • The best way to help is to maintain peace and make progress.
    Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But to make progress, both countries need to resume talks.
    Olesya Vartanyan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Keep moving for a whole minute to make progress toward your stand goal.
    Anand Giridharadas, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The city will always be available to make progress 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
    Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And Ukraine will continue to make progress on the battlefield.
    CBS News, 16 July 2023
  • Don't just sit there, do something -- make progress but don't allow this to keep going.
    Mariam Khan, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The union and the company had appeared to make progress toward a new contract in recent weeks.
    Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Here's who the Wildcats will play Can Wildcats' special teams make progress under new coach?
    Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2023
  • To make progress in building such a model, one option is to place the computer inside a black hole.
    Simon Duan, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
  • This year, the agency hopes to make progress on a number of bikeway projects, most notably one that runs from the bayshore in Barrio Logan all the way to the border.
    Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The Sox are hoping pitching prospect Bryan Mata continues to make progress this year.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • But the Holy War is merely one component of a difficult schedule that will make progress slow in Year 2.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The party’s Rules and Bylaws panel voted last week to give the states until June 3 to make progress, which is unlikely.
    Arit John, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
  • This year, the agency hopes to make progress on a number of such projects, most notably through Barrio Logan and on a route to the Mexico border.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2023
  • Staffers have been meeting daily since then to try to make progress, according to the White House, and the leaders are expected to meet again early next week.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 12 May 2023
  • In the meantime, the Biden team has helped make progress between the two nations, such as opening Saudi airspace to all Israeli civilian airplanes.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Lea Michele's son Ever Leo is continuing to make progress.
    Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Here's how companies can make progress The managers role in closing the pay gap Why is pay equity still an issue?
    Quartz, 20 June 2023
  • From Talk To Action To make progress on the circular transition will require a knuckling down.
    Carmen Ene, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But to make progress on math questions that no one knows how to answer also requires a lot of creativity.
    Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Pearsall is an offensive piece the Gators can build around for next season, but more playmakers will need to emerge for Florida to make progress in 2023.
    Kevin Brockway, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The bank reported revenue that fell short of estimates and didn’t make progress in controlling its costs.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But too many are focused on using immigration and the border to divide us rather than make progress.
    Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Young said Monday deGrom is continuing to throw and make progress but didn’t give a framework for a return.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • The spirit of the treaty — that even the original five nuclear states would make progress toward disarmament — has not been achieved.
    Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Our pediatrician came to meet Riley the day after he was born and assured us that a lot of babies go through this and that Riley would make progress and come home to us.
    Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Dean McDermott is taking big steps in order to make progress in his sobriety journey.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
  • There have also been improvements in prevention, which, given the horse’s unusual anatomy, may be the most promising way to make progress.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • The 2024 legislative session was an attempt to rise to the occasion, Kessler said, and the results show that lawmakers and advocates can make progress through conversation and compromise.
    Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 18 May 2024
  • The prison system continues to make progress on trying to avoid a repeat of what happened with Creech while maintaining lethal injection as Idaho’s preferred execution method.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 29 May 2024

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