Used in a Sentence

progressively

How to use progressively in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for progressively.

Editorial note

Where was the support for learning progressively? What happened to the joy of just building something?

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Quick take

advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly depressed"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of progressively gathered in one view.

adverb

advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly depressed"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for progressively.

adverb

advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly depressed"

Example sentences

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Where was the support for learning progressively? What happened to the joy of just building something?

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I think it's sad that the city will progressively become a strange place where the very rich and the bums stare at each other. If you want to have a preview, spend one hour on Market and 7th.

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I'm pretty good at CSS I suppose, and it's not something you can learn logically and progressively. You have to learn all the weird nuances and quirks of it as well as the syntax.

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Anyway, I clicked the "Add Circle" link, and got a string of progressively less parseable pages full of people's pictures that I can presumably drag and drop places. I just makes no sense whatsoever.

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It doesn't have to be progressively enhanced. Imagine for a moment if Wikipedia was one massive Ember App...

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This is what has to happen, or else Google has to keep subsidizing progressively larger bandwidth bills - and the people who are creating the content have to keep their day jobs.

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If being a good speaker pushed me away from having and conveying good ideas, my talks should have been getting progressively less informative, not more so. I posit that while PG is seeing a real effect, it's not the effect he thinks he's seeing.

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Whatever the reason, the outcome is simple: over time, cache lookups get progressively more expensive; some of this is unavoidable, and some may be made worse by a faulty hash map implementation in infinite_cache. cc."

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I love the way Internet cos, led by Facebook and now Google are progressively conditioning us to different interpretations of online privacy. First it was "Like or +1" anything you like.

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It is very important to make your own cards progressively and learn from those, because you know what you need to emphasize for the info to stick. Just use small information on every card, use your own terms, and it will be much easier to learn, compared to some random deck you downloaded.

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What happens when the definition becomes progressively wider? What counts as "terrorism" is political, after all.

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Afterward, I learned that I had a genetic condition where my hearing was fated since birth to progressively worsen and peak as I reach my 20s. Since then, I really struggled with hearing in a new, scary way that I never experienced when I could at least hear with hearing aids in both ears.

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As a result I began to get progressively sicker, with bruising appearing over my body. As you can imagine this situation gets very dangerous very quickly, as doctors told me that if I hadn't gone into the ER when I did I ran the risk of bleeding in my brain while walking to class.

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The funny thing is he didn't write the app, oh no, some NCO years before him had written it and like some odd cultural tradition handed down for generations every NCO after him just progressively enhanced it to suit their needs. There was an old Access book on the shelf in that office and each admin NCO had picked it up, learned what they needed too, and carried on.

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But unless everyone want to start paying an amount for your internet connections that rises with the square of the size of the internet, we're going to see progressively worse and worse throttling. Right now the strategy is fast becoming limiting interconnect capacity to prevent the core network overloading, which would have far worse consequences.

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By violently critiquing such controversial stances, we are indirectly silencing those voices, and ultimately destroying our own ability to find progressively better solutions to problems, because we get stuck inside a single point of view and refuse to move outside of it. It is not simply a matter of ignoring trolls either, because many of the most hurtful comments, at least in my experience, are otherwise highly intelligent people who completely missed the point of what you were trying to say, and have spent 10 minutes writing a scathing critique against a nonexistent problem.

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15 years ago, researchers thought they'd killed memory corruption code execution off for good with stack cookies; the years that followed have been a story of new countermeasures introduced, hailed as a single bullet, bypassed by clever attacks, and then fit into a patchwork of defenses that have made exploits progressively harder, but not close to impossible, to build.

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I'd encourage people to think of this less as "Wow, she misinterpreted a series of options and got progressively father from her goal state until it was unrecoverable; sucks to be her" to "This is computers as perceived by people who do not make a living making computers work, and we should anticipate them not always understanding our applications and design them to facilitate understanding when possible and make correction easy when not, to the maximum extent possible."

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use progressively in a sentence?

Where was the support for learning progressively? What happened to the joy of just building something?

What does progressively mean?

advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly depressed"

What part of speech is progressively?

progressively is commonly used as adverb.