stride
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4.1
- noun
- /straɪd/
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avance
- We have taken great strides in our national development.
- make strides
- great strides
- significant strides
Would you take constant strides towards your goals?
- Would you take constant strides towards your goals?
- And my only sense of how that's possible is huge strides in training methodology.
- And we've made great strides in that area through neuroscience and behavioral studies.
- So every every step we make a huge strides to improve our process.
- No, I think the police forces by and large, taken huge strides to moving away from being inherently racist.
Examples
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Goddard believes that in order to make further strides, support from the state level is necessary.
Academic text (1999) -
Black actors made greater strides in movies and TV than those employed behind the scenes.
Academic text (2012) -
Here is where things happen, where decisions are made, where industry is making the greatest strides of any state or nation in the world.
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Other countries have made considerable strides regarding alternate models of music education.
Academic text (2011) -
At present, Chinese public schools are making great strides in parent involvement.
Academic text (2008) -
Likewise, we have made great strides in understanding how the brain operates.
Academic text (2015) -
You've made some incredible strides in the last six months.
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Today, we have made great strides to further protect our children and our freedoms.
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The international community has made such enormous strides toward improving human well-being over the last 50 years.
Academic text (1998) -
Our team has made significant strides in reducing pollution levels this year.
Synonyms
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3.1
Progress toward a goal or a new discovery
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3.9
A sudden important discovery or advance that solves a big problem
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4.1
Progress or growth that makes something better
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3.2
An important event that shows progress in a person's life or project
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5.6
Progress toward a goal, often slowly and with effort
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3.6
A thing that helps you make progress toward a goal
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6.1
A big step forward in one area of work or study
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3.4
An experience that helps someone make progress toward a goal
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Etymology
Stride used to mean a 'long step', and a helpful way to remember its meaning of progress is to think of taking big steps forward. So to 'make strides' is to make important progress toward a goal.