Ahead
Ahead adjective - Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
Progressive and ahead are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Progressive" instead an adjective "Ahead".
Progressive
Progressive adjective - Being far along in development.
Ahead and progressive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ahead" instead an adjective "Progressive".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Never mind the fact that between the dated verses is moral philosophy that was well ahead of its time, some of which is taken for granted having now become the status quo, and some of which can still be considered "progressive" today.
Source: Seinfeld Is Unfunny / Literature - Sufficiently Advanced Alien and/or Insufficiently Advanced Alien: The rubre are technologically decades ahead of humans but are socially not very "progressive," though really they understand social issues much differently than humans do.
Source: Webcomic / New America -
It's still democratic, and quite progressive and open, but the political mainstream grows unfriendly to non-socialist points of view, and cronyism ensures that supporting the government is all but necessary to get ahead in society.
Source: Literature / Malê Rising
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