progress
noun
a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage.
had progressed
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past perfectof progress.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But after his wife read a magazine article about advances in prosthetics, describing how they had progressed from basic skin grafts to realistic artificial ears, Gilbert went to his GP.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Los Angeles County Fire Department Incident Command “was unaware that the fire had progressed through west Altadena until the daylight hours on January 8, 2025,” the report read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
By the second day, my casts had progressed from consistently awful to pretty decent about 40% of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
HM Coastguard said the salvage of Solong had progressed to enable its relocation to Aberdeen for safe berthing.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night at about ten p.m.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
