make great strides

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Advance considerably, make good progress, as in He made great strides in his study of Latin. Since its earliest recorded use in 1600, this expression has taken a number of forms—make a wide stride, take strides, make rapid strides. All of them transfer a long walking step to other kinds of progress.

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How to use make great strides in a sentence

Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
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Unfortunately, this is more about protecting the legacy of a ‘great man.’
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Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
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Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
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And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
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"Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.
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I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
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After a minute's pause, while he stood painfully silent, she resumed in great emotion.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
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