How to Use make progress in a Sentence
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What needs to be done to close those gaps and make progress?
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
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This is how humans make progress.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
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This time, the envoy appeared to make progress.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
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Keep moving for a whole minute to make progress toward your stand goal.
—Anand Giridharadas, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
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And just about everyone can make progress.
—Will Stone, NPR, 26 Dec. 2025
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To make progress, change is mandatory.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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Right now, being reliable is the best way to make progress.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
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Start with the big things, like the walls and floors, then slowly make progress toward your end goal.
—Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Apr. 2026
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A little over a year on, the gloom is stalking their attempts to make progress.
—Chris Weatherspoon, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025
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Don't just sit there, do something -- make progress but don't allow this to keep going.
—Mariam Khan, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
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If the two sides are unable to make progress on a new deal, a sign-and-trade could become much more likely.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
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The city will always be available to make progress 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
—Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
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Fire crews are working in steep and rocky terrain but continuing to make progress.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2025
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People have to push through barriers or setbacks to stay engaged and make progress.
—Emily Messina, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2026
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Top Democratic leaders will try to make progress and cut deals that can be passed without full votes.
—Mike Deehan, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024
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And Ukraine will continue to make progress on the battlefield.
—CBS News, 16 July 2023
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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
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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
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But the two sides remain far apart on a possible compromise and have little time to make progress.
—David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 4 Feb. 2026
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The goal of the summit was to make progress on resolving the Russia-Ukraine war.
—Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
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The goal of the summit was to make progress on resolving the Russia-Ukraine war.
—Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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No quizzes or scores or lengthy exercises, no pressure to be perfect – just a commitment to make progress.
—Essence, 25 Feb. 2025
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The bank reported revenue that fell short of estimates and didn’t make progress in controlling its costs.
—Charley Grant, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
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After that problem was solved, then people could make progress on the really quantum features.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
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The organizations that make progress start with a clearer question.
—Mikko Karkkainen, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
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Trying to tackle too many goals at once can scatter your energy and make progress feel impossible.
—Kara Stevens, Essence, 12 Dec. 2025
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What Happens Next The active high-speed rail projects continue to make progress.
—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
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Here's who the Wildcats will play Can Wildcats' special teams make progress under new coach?
—Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2023
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