as in progress
forward movement in time or place
the ant was making little headway carrying a crumb that was about five times his size
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Recent Examples of headway
But talks toward an agreement, which appeared to be making serious headway last week, came to a standstill when ByteDance called the White House to inform it that the Chinese government would not let a TikTok deal proceed, Lauren Hirsch, David McCabe and Sapna Maheshwari reported for The Times.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Tune back into your daily load of responsibilities and make some headway on your to-do lists.
—Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 24 Mar. 2025
If mortgage rates aren’t making much headway one way or the other this year, neither is the housing market itself.
—Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
In one vision of this future, autonomous vehicles would share information with nearby cars to optimize traffic flow—perhaps, the researchers suggest, by prioritizing constant speeds and headways or by not passing others on the road.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2025
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Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Tune back into your daily load of responsibilities and make some headway on your to-do lists.
—Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 24 Mar. 2025
If mortgage rates aren’t making much headway one way or the other this year, neither is the housing market itself.
—Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
In one vision of this future, autonomous vehicles would share information with nearby cars to optimize traffic flow—perhaps, the researchers suggest, by prioritizing constant speeds and headways or by not passing others on the road.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headway
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There is no update on the containment progress of the fire and its cause has not yet been determined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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How the condition originates, progresses, and responds to treatment can also vary a good deal among people.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
16 Apr. 2025
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The senators asked the Office of Government Ethics to probe whether any White House or executive branch officials, to include special government employees, were informed of the announcement in advance and what financial transactions were made by officials with knowledge of nonpublic information.—
Isabella Murray,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2025
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At issue are timing advance records, detailed location data from a phone that is only preserved for seven days.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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But this can be a time-consuming process, so legacy ID holders should plan to be at the airport at least three hours before departure, instead of the usual two hours for a domestic flight.—
Taylor Johnston,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2025
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The lawsuit, filed in federal court, came after the company backed out of a permitting process required under local zoning laws that would have put the ICE proposal through several rounds of scrutiny at public meetings.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
21 Apr. 2025
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In fact, researchers have theorized that fusion could generate nearly limitless amounts of safe and clean energy on Earth, but the scientific advancements that could make this possible on a large scale are still decades away.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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The announcement marks the first advancement toward a full agreement that was thrown into jeopardy by rounds of tense talks and Zelensky's disastrous White House visit in February.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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However, slowing the progression of vision loss is key.—
Heidi Cope,
Health,
19 Apr. 2025
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However, there is a continuous rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA), indicating disease progression.—
Matthew Wosnitzer,
Verywell Health,
18 Apr. 2025
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No weapons, explosives, or materials used to make bombs were found in Darvish's procession or the Tesla vehicle, police said.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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The crowd, which took up almost three city blocks, sang hymns and secular songs during the procession.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Headway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headway. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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