make strides

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Meaning

make strides (third-person singular simple present makes strides, present participle making strides, simple past and past participle made strides)

To make progress towards achieving a goal.

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What if that knowledge - and only that - should become the possession of all? Would not science itself progress in leaps, and cause mankind to make strides in production, invention, and social creation, of which we are hardly in a condition now to measure the speed? Peter Kropotkin

It was the 1990s, and women were beginning to make strides on Wall Street — their ambitions, their challenges and their boxy suits fictionalized memorably in Hollywood movies of the previous decade like “Working Girl” and “Baby Boom.” Source: Internet

Punk rock continued to make strides in the musical community. Source: Internet

The new style was profitable for some and helped filmmakers to make strides in the business. Source: Internet

This will especially work when one of the Cavaliers’ primary ball handlers drives to the rim and draws the attention away from Okoro, and Sexton, for instance, did make strides as a passer as last season progressed. Source: Internet

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