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progress toward achieving a goal

Much more rarely inroad is used in the singular form to reference an invasion or hostile attack.

Our new product has made inroads into the Chinese market.

The researchers have made major inroads into solving the questions surrounding the cause of the disease.
It's the faithful record of this inconceivable expedition into an element now beyond human reach, but where progress will someday make great inroads.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
But even in their failures they made inroads into understanding the manipulation of space/time.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
But if we keep making inroads into the city, we might find a pretty who wants out.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
They make an inroad into Finn's country, and a battle takes place in which many warriors, among them Hnaef and a son of Finn, are killed.
Unknown -- Beowulf
With his firm health, and the little inroad that age has made upon him, fifteen years or twenty—yes, or perhaps five-and-twenty!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
Chinese women are also making inroads in fields that were once overwhelmingly male.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
I learnt so much from himself in an inroad I once, despite his reserve, had the daring to make on his confidence.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
When he ascended the throne his country was in a deplorable condition from the repeated inroads of northern invaders.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
The havoc that months had previously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
Jack drank gratefully, feeling the gin hit and crumble away the first inroads of sobriety.
Stephen King -- The Shining
Whites had only made such inroads because the Reds could never unite under one leader.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
Ay, Montcalm has raked the woods for his inroad, and a whooping, murdering set of varlets has he gathered together.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
Black inroads and patches on the slopes showed where a few days back all bad been white.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
She had made no advance, no inroads at all.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
"I know that," I said, seizing this inroad.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
Allan Wall, the teacher, said that living in Mexico had given him a different perspective on the inroads of Spanish in America.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
It was an inroad, minor but vital, and perhaps not so minor.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
We had begun to make inroads against these people.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

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