How to Use in progress in a Sentence

in progress

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  • The Snakeman™ has spent the ensuing decades on a naming spree that is very much still in progress.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • This is one of the largest numbers of FIU construction projects in progress at one time.
    — Florida International University, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • The future of this year’s report, which is already in progress, remains uncertain.
    — Daniel Peck, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • All of this makes the album feel more like a mixtape in progress, scraped together from features cut from other people’s projects.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 July 2026
  • Hundreds more homes are coming to a west Fort Worth development that has been in progress for a decade.
    — Emily Holshouser july 23, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026
  • Deputies later received a report of a burglary in progress on Mackinaw Way.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • The same anomaly, combined with the larger context of a person's or entity's behavior over time, may reveal an attack in progress.
    — Klaudia Zaika, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • About 103 goals outlined in the plan are in progress, the assistant village administrator said.
    — Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • With one notable exception, the murders are never depicted in progress; they’re revealed to us in the past tense, as seasonal problems waiting to be solved.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
  • Peterson's attorneys argued that Laci could have interrupted the robbery in progress and was then abducted and killed by the burglars.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
  • Crowdfunding campaign always carry and element of risk, but the campaign page shows pre-production testing in progress and a working prototype in action.
    — New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But the threat of a partial collapse Tuesday by one such conversion in progress highlighted the significant challenges of those construction projects.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
  • China’s foreign ministry released a position paper while the case was in progress—which read remarkably like a legal brief—that the arbitrators considered as well.
    — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
  • Days before Christmas in 2024 at an Elk Grove shopping center, police captured a retail theft in progress from the air.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The planet appears to have carved a visible gap inside the protoplanetary disk, giving astronomers one of the clearest views yet of planetary formation in progress.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Assuming there aren’t any active disputes or audits in progress, the following paperwork can generally be discarded after a decade.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 30 June 2026
  • Roy declined to disclose if a tentative agreement was reached on the technology proposal because labor negotiations are in progress.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
  • Worse, because the attacker now has data on email threads or company projects in progress, the phishing attack is even harder for a busy staffer (or executive) to flag as suspicious while scanning their inbox.
    — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026
  • From Anne Hathaway to Robert De Niro, these stars unexpectedly parted ways with productions already in progress.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
  • The round of 32 is in progress, with several teams already moving on the round of 16, including tournament co-hosts Canada and Mexico.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Error correction also requires that the hardware support measurements while a calculation is in progress, which a number of other technologies have already demonstrated.
    — ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The talks have been in progress for more than a year, as CNBC previously reported, but nothing official has been decided and the specifics are still subject to change.
    — Dan Mangan,luke Fountain,kevin Breuninger,garrett Downs,ashley Capoot,justin Papp, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • Police responding to an assault in progress found Crisaine Dockery unconscious on the Belt Parkway at Farmers Blvd.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026
  • Extreme heat impacts greater Baltimore starting Wednesday A dangerous heat wave is in progress for the Mid-Atlantic and surrounding areas.
    — Cutter Martin, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Roughly 20 to 25 minutes after the initial dispatch, radio traffic indicated CPR was in progress as emergency crews worked inside the home.
    — Brittany Miller , Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
  • All eyes on England-Norway Even as fans file into Arrowhead, many are stopping to watch the other quarterfinal now in progress, between England and Norway.
    — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2026
  • Phase 1, which is currently in progress and will continue until 2029, focuses on robotic missions to demonstrate that the technology and vehicles required for a lunar settlement will work.
    — Briana Alvarado, ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • With prototype construction now in progress, engineers will begin integrating the aircraft’s complex airframe, propulsion system, avionics, stealth materials, and onboard computing systems.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 31 July 2026
  • Councilmember Brice Stewart, who sponsored the moratoriums, reiterated Monday that the bans will not have any impact on data centers already in progress in Independence.
    — Ilana Arougheti july 7, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
  • Topographical, geographical, and environmental studies are complete at the Lost Marsh site, and due diligence is in progress at the Wolf Lake Terminal site, Warren said.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

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