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in progress



Definitions

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in progress
     1. prep. Currently taking place.
Analysis
in
     1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
     2. prep.          Contained by.
                   The dog is in the kennel.
     3. prep.          Within.
     4. prep.          Surrounded by.
progress
     1. n. Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
           Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
     2. n. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
           Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
     3. n. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.

Example Sentences

The set has changed back to the room of art in progress, with the arrangements of papers and paintings being added, subtracted and moved around between each section. 
It is a snapshot, a glimpse of the woman through the eyes of her contemporaries, and it amounts only, in effect, to notes for a work in progress. 



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