Progress and Shift

Progress

Progress noun - Forward movement in time or place.

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Shift and progress are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shift" instead the word "Progress" as a noun or a verb.

Shift noun - An action planned or taken to achieve a desired result.

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Progress and shift are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Progress" instead the word "Shift" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: shifting, shifted, shifty, shiftiness, shifter

steady	steady progress	steady shift
actual	actual progress	actual shift
real	real progress	real shift
slow	slow progress	slow shift
Other adjectives: slight, quick, social, important, new, major, general, minor, further, significant, last, radical, cultural, recent.

Contrast Idealized Sex, since the Romanticized Abuse is clearly abusive — however, as the stories progress, Romanticized Abuse has a tendency to shift over into becoming Idealized Sex instead.

Source: Romanticized Abuse
Tired from her long shift, the protagonist fails to recognize the numerous clues about the in-progress Zombie Apocalypse until the next morning.

Source: Scenery Gorn / Film
Loading your save data from BlazBlue: Continuum Shift into the Updated Re-release, Continuum Shift EXTEND, lets you keep your progress through Story Mode.

Source: Old Save Bonus

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Shift and Progress. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/progress/shift

Progress & Shift. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/progress/shift>.

Shift or Progress. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/progress/shift.

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