progressist
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Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters Abe acknowledged that many people were still struggling, but he said: “Reconstruction is steadily making progress, step by step, with housing being rebuilt and jobs regained.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2016
We will not follow him in his triumphant progress, step by step.
From From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Our highly educated Rationalists say, to be sure, "It's all false, it's a mere bugbear; we're in a state of constant progress, step by step raising ourselves to ever greater perfection."
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)
We will not follow him in his triumphant progress step by step.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
We cannot follow their progress step by step.
From Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. by Morris, Charles
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