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Definition
gradually advancing or becoming more severe
- A few minutes later, someone noticed that the engines on one side were burning more fuel than those on the other, making one side progressively lighter.p. 117.5
progressively = increasingly
- In the early months of 1940, in a series of eastern indoor miles against the best runners in America, he was magnificent, taking two seconds and two close fourths, twice beating Cunningham, and getting progressively faster.p. 42.4
progressively = increasingly
There are no more uses of "progressive" in Unbroken by Hillenbrand.
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