Progress
Progress noun - Forward movement in time or place.
Usage example: we're making slow progress against this stiff headwind
Return
Return verb - To go back to a previous and usually lower state or level.
Usage example: vowed to do anything to keep the recovering alcoholic from returning to his dissolute ways
How words are described
| good | good progress | good return |
| better | better progress | better return |
| true | true progress | true return |
| actual | actual progress | actual return |
| Other adjectives: real, great, little, slight, quick, few, later, last, recent. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Part of the reason Khan is so pissed at Kirk is because when he was exiled Kirk promised to return and check on the colony's progress someday (in "Space Seed" Kirk said he'd "come back in 100 years"), but never did and forgot all about him.
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Sora will occasionally come across various glitches that impede his progress, requiring entering locations called System Sectors to fix the glitches and return the world to normal.
- Thus, Alex and the others do receive an epiphany, but this epiphany allows them to progress into heaven, and not to return to the living.
Source: Epiphanic Prison
Cite this Source
Return and Progress. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/progress/return
Progress & Return. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/progress/return>.
Return or Progress. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/progress/return.
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