How to Use in progress in a Sentence

in progress

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  • The stock hit a new high last week and a potential breakout is in progress.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Since the purchase, she’s offered followers a few rare glimpses at the work in progress.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2026
  • But this exam is still in progress, and history is doing the grading.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The Snakeman™ has spent the ensuing decades on a naming spree that is very much still in progress.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The state department of health has been notified, and contact tracing is in progress.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The Supreme Court’s decision comes as mail voting is already in progress in some states.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The Supreme Court's decision comes as mail voting is already in progress in some states.
    — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
  • This is one of the largest numbers of FIU construction projects in progress at one time.
    — Florida International University, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • The future of this year’s report, which is already in progress, remains uncertain.
    — Daniel Peck, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • All of this makes the album feel more like a mixtape in progress, scraped together from features cut from other people’s projects.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 July 2026
  • Hundreds more homes are coming to a west Fort Worth development that has been in progress for a decade.
    — Emily Holshouser july 23, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026
  • Though this project marks BIG’s first in Japan, another is already in progress.
    — Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Additionally, some hoppers can be added to while a count is in progress, whereas others need to finish the load first.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Deputies later received a report of a burglary in progress on Mackinaw Way.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • Extended drying times mean Riddell often has up to 30 artworks in progress.
    — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The same anomaly, combined with the larger context of a person's or entity's behavior over time, may reveal an attack in progress.
    — Klaudia Zaika, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • About 103 goals outlined in the plan are in progress, the assistant village administrator said.
    — Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • With one notable exception, the murders are never depicted in progress; they’re revealed to us in the past tense, as seasonal problems waiting to be solved.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
  • They had been told not to throw out the washing machine while the investigation was in progress and didn’t understand why the police hadn’t taken it as evidence, why it had been left there.
    — Elvira Navarro, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • All told, Raitiere says the group finished five or six complete tracks with various musicians, each with Weir singing lead, but have upwards of 17 in progress.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Peterson's attorneys argued that Laci could have interrupted the robbery in progress and was then abducted and killed by the burglars.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
  • The renovations in what was previously Penn Station East Coast Subs are in progress.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Crowdfunding campaign always carry and element of risk, but the campaign page shows pre-production testing in progress and a working prototype in action.
    — New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But the threat of a partial collapse Tuesday by one such conversion in progress highlighted the significant challenges of those construction projects.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
  • While the investigation was in progress, Nampa High was put in a hall check status, meaning hallways were cleared and students and staff remained in their classrooms.
    — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 8 Sep. 2026
  • China’s foreign ministry released a position paper while the case was in progress—which read remarkably like a legal brief—that the arbitrators considered as well.
    — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
  • Days before Christmas in 2024 at an Elk Grove shopping center, police captured a retail theft in progress from the air.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The planet appears to have carved a visible gap inside the protoplanetary disk, giving astronomers one of the clearest views yet of planetary formation in progress.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Saturday officers responded to a report of a fight in progress at a business in the 300 block of Winton Avenue.
    — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Assuming there aren’t any active disputes or audits in progress, the following paperwork can generally be discarded after a decade.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 30 June 2026

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