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Analysts say the campaign has been promising thus far but note that there are still a number of unknowns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

In the meantime, he said his research into his host star hypothesis has been promising, and he hopes to publish his findings in the near future.

From Science Daily • Oct. 15, 2025

While research on new treatments has been promising, according to the Mayo Clinic, the condition has no cure.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2025

"The government has been promising us a better life for years," says Mr Bambatha, surveying his potholed street, and a vista of corrugated shacks beyond.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2023

He has a volume of very bizarre tales in the hands of ——, in Philadelphia, who for a year past has been promising to publish them.

From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various