How to Use progression in a Sentence
progression
noun- Doctors were surprised by the rapid progression of the disease.
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And in the background of all this is the chance for progression in skills development- up and down the line.
—Murat Ates, New York Times, 21 June 2025
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The right chord progression can tell you where lovers stand, or who the killer is.
—Keyaira Boone, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
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The 25-year-old will start a game progression over the weekend.
—Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2023
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But at the end of the day, there was no forward progression.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
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Keep track of your results and see the progression over the 30 days.
—Adam Stott, Forbes, 20 May 2022
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By the end of the progression, his hand and thumb felt normal once again.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 20 July 2025
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The first part of the progression involves increasing the reps and the sets.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 21 July 2025
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Lue then talked about the next steps for Leonard in his progression.
—Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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What’s the next step in the progression for the newcomers?
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
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The progression for Rutschman will be more rapid than Hall.
—Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 5 May 2022
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Over about a week's time, this phase marks the progression from a first quarter moon to a full moon.
—Terri Robertson, Country Living, 31 July 2023
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The two also added a rising three-chord progression that led to the hook.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2023
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The drug isn’t a cure for Alzheimer’s, but may be able to delay progression of the disease.
—Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 14 July 2023
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The grind of the year will be the true test of Duran’s progression in those latter areas.
—Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
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This sort of pop turn was a natural progression for T.I. who had reached the top of the rap world.
—Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
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The scourge would spread fast, but the progression of illness would be slow and subtle.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2024
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Well, the listener may not be at the same point in the progression of our band as us, but that’s our job.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
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Is this the natural end of the progression started in the 1920s by Gabrielle Chanel?
—New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
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Rather, lecanemab put a drag on the progression of the disease, the companies said.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 21 Oct. 2022
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The guidance explains the four stages of the disease progression.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2023
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The cancer hadn’t shown signs of progression at her last scan.
—Sydney Brownstone, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2022
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Harsin chose not to walk reporters through the play’s progression and whether Nix made the correct read.
—Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 20 Sep. 2021
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This type of progression is crucial to the project’s longevity.
—Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2023
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What can be done to address these needs for progression and growth?
—Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
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And then there’s the final way to measure the progression of innings: outs.
—Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2021
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To hear from some of the leaders in the room about the progression of ballroom, check out my latest story on the scene.
—Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
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Taylor Gold felt the pressure of that progression, to be sure.
—Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
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Although the drug definitively reduces the chance of death from Covid-19, the drug didn’t seem to slow down the progression of the disease.
—Victoria Forster, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
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It’s been cool to see him, getting him as a kid in ’23, the youngest guy on the roster at that point, through now and seeing his progression.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 11 July 2025
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