as in forward
toward or at a point lying in advance in space or time
traffic was inching along at a snail's pace work on the project is moving right along
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Recent Examples of along
Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024
The dress featured ruffle details throughout, mainly along the neckline, sleeves and skirt.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
Natalia Cano, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2024
Their ergonomic shape—the tubes flatten into ovals halfway along, right where your hands want to grip the body—positions the focus wheel directly under your index finger.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2024
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Preposition
Get Into the Holiday Spirit by Watching Mariah Carey Bake Christmas Cookies
The Rivertowns are a collection of historic villages dotted along the Hudson River in Westchester County.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024
The dress featured ruffle details throughout, mainly along the neckline, sleeves and skirt.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
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The show transformed into a retrospective journey honoring love and heartbreak, while the audience — mostly comprised of young women, teenagers, and girls — sang along at deafening volumes.
—Natalia Cano, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2024
Their ergonomic shape—the tubes flatten into ovals halfway along, right where your hands want to grip the body—positions the focus wheel directly under your index finger.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2024
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Ives and Ward acknowledge that Cruise did bring GM access to technology that has helped improve safety features across its broader lineup and helped attract top software engineers to the automaker.Jamie L. LaReau, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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On this trip to Africa, Engman asked more than 100 Ghanaians across the educational and economic spectrum to share their perceptions of AI, and their visions for its future.Leslie Katz, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The charge carries a maximum term of four years in prison, but guidelines suggest Trump would receive a far lower penalty than that if the sentencing were to move forward.Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Dec. 2024
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That ended with conflicting accounts about their plans moving forward.Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
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Drones hovering over New Jersey and near Staten Island, New York, in recent weeks have raised concerns due to a lack of clarity over their origin.Louis Casiano, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2024
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Over the summer, sustained blackouts struck industrial parks near Tehran and other cities.Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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However, his career saw a turn driving for Stewart-Haas Racing in 2024, achieving a third-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway, and bagging seven top-10 finishes over 36 races.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
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They have been spotted flying over important infrastructure, like reservoirs, power lines and railroads, in people’s backyards and above highways.Alyce McFadden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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More are now coming forwards to accuse him of inappropriate touching.Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
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The versatile and experienced Granlund leads the Sharks with 29 points in 26 games this season and also leads all of the team’s forwards in average time on ice (20:51).Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Several SpaceX executives have been asking questions about matters that go well beyond space policy, and interrogating federal spending across government agencies, people with direct knowledge of the talks say.Theodore Schleifer, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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The escape that physical intimacy and the act of climax provide is as fleeting as the climax itself, pushing Lee to go beyond the physical and seek out even deeper ways to connect, namely telepathy, by the film’s end.David Opie, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024
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For Hughes and Hronek, time and space at the point disappeared from early December onward.Jimmy Durkin, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
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Netanyahu had asked to delay his testimony——the latest of years of requests because of the conflicts roiling the Middle East——but the courts insisted upon his attendance from here onward.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Derek Hough, another former pro on the series who now sits on its judging panel alongside Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli, may have won three times as many golds as Burke, but Burke has displayed a uniquely incisive eye for gameplay and technique on her podcast.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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Cassidy was seen attending Payne's funeral in England on Nov. 20, alongside his One Direction bandmates Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan.Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Along.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/along. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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