Progressive

//pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv//

"Progressive" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity.

His thought is progressive.

He is very progressive, not to say radical.

The example is a past progressive tense sentence. How was everybody taught when they were learning about progressive tense?

In a progressive tense sentence it becomes the -ing form verb, that is the present participle.

The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.

The grammatical form employed here is the present progressive.

His policies were too progressive.

Mary returned home from Japan with many new and progressive ideas.

Tom is very progressive, isn't he?

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a progressive politician

progressive business leadership

Conservative movements were far more progressive than the standard religious narrative of the decade alleges and the notoriously progressive ethos of the era was far more conservative than our collective memory has recognized.

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Wednesday called for “action, not words” from Democrats, criticizing the approach of some in the progressive wing of the party.

a progressive school

progressive paralysis

The progressives want to legalise gay marriage.

Not long ago, few progressives imagined this day would come. They assumed the MAGA movement had been discredited by the shocking images that emerged from the January 6 insurrection, and that Trump was politically weakened by the barrage of criminal charges against him.

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