advances
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Fire Department spokesperson Andrew Dowd said monitoring had been “deployed to establish a background air quality, so that if the fire advances further into that sensitive area we would have a baseline to compare against.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
The reason is a confluence of advances in medical, logistical, and communication technology.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
Such advances, praised and scrutinised in equal measure, are still also accompanied by warnings to users of the tech's limitations and dangers of relying on it.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Its 45-ton axle was largest piece of steel ever forged until that time, demonstrating new advances in steel construction and mechanical engineering.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
It is astonishing how little information we have about this universal process, with all the other dazzling advances in biology.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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