advancer
AmericanEtymology
Origin of advancer
Example Sentences
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Wall Street ended mostly in the red, with the Dow the only advancer.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Some scientists delight in the role of advancer or supporter of the new piece of knowledge that will change how we understand our world in some fundamental way.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2013
And suppose that he then offers his heap of boards to the advancer of a + b as an equivalent for the wood + ten days' supply of vital capital?
From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry
In politics, as we know, he was a liberal conservative,--a conserver of what was best in the present and the past, and an advancer of all that tended to true and harmonious progress.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John
The glory swims Girdling the glory-giver, swallowed straight By night's abysmal gloom, unglorified Behind as erst before the advancer: gloom?
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)
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