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the act or process of going from the simple or basic to the complex or advanced
the evolution of motion pictures from short, silent reels into a medium of mass entertainment and an art form
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Recent Examples of evolutions
Seyed Mohamad Seyed Hoseini, a financial markets analyst and founder of Hoseini Finance, describes this shift as one of the most significant and rapid evolutions in contemporary trading.
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Jason Phillips, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
Stone and Roszak have now worked together for almost 20 years and have been through a lot of hair evolutions together.
—Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2026
But in the six decades since that fateful night, the Queen City’s culinary landscape has undergone multiple evolutions, driven largely by a vast diversity of immigrants who have shaped the city.
—Max Kalnitz, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Jan. 2026
These linguistic evolutions have wide-reaching implications.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
The researchers showed that the more strongly the time evolutions were put into superposition, the larger the violation became.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
Palazzolo likes to think of this and all her works as living organisms that may spend several months in different evolutions.
—Mario Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
That’s true of great technological evolutions, too.
—Nick Tzitzon, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Swift’s signature hairstyles have gone through just as many evolutions as her music.
—Anneke Knot, Allure, 10 Oct. 2025
Jason Phillips, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
Stone and Roszak have now worked together for almost 20 years and have been through a lot of hair evolutions together.
—Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2026
But in the six decades since that fateful night, the Queen City’s culinary landscape has undergone multiple evolutions, driven largely by a vast diversity of immigrants who have shaped the city.
—Max Kalnitz, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Jan. 2026
These linguistic evolutions have wide-reaching implications.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
The researchers showed that the more strongly the time evolutions were put into superposition, the larger the violation became.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
Palazzolo likes to think of this and all her works as living organisms that may spend several months in different evolutions.
—Mario Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
That’s true of great technological evolutions, too.
—Nick Tzitzon, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Swift’s signature hairstyles have gone through just as many evolutions as her music.
—Anneke Knot, Allure, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evolutions
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The county commissioners will hold a public hearing on the plan for Comanche Circle, and separately consider putting a temporary pause on these types of big developments.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Jan. 2026
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Market watchers will be keeping an eye on the developments in Iran this week after widespread protests were met with a violent crackdown by the Iranian authorities.—
Tasmin Lockwood,Hugh Leask,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
12 Jan. 2026
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Jimenez expressed confidence the ballot measure would continue to gain steam as SEIU-UHW’s campaign progresses.—
Andrew Graham,
Sacbee.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The model tracks payments in real-time as the fiscal year progresses and acts as fiscal control once institutions begin submitting claims.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2026
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Kids were not randomly playing acoustic instruments, effortlessly hitting complex jazz chord progressions.—
Keith Murphy,
VIBE.com,
12 Dec. 2025
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Noel’s songs of hope, friendship, and joy, combined with his ability to write gorgeously sad chord progressions and hymns as sung by his brother, are needed now more than ever.—
Lori Majewski,
Rolling Stone,
23 Nov. 2025
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The proposal includes $2 billion in highway expansions and $50 million for homelessness initiatives.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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Other renovations and expansions are planned.—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Evolutions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evolutions. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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