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  • 1advance — vb 1 Advance, promote, forward, further all mean to move or put ahead, but they come into comparison chiefly when they imply help in moving or putting (something) ahead. Advance usually implies effective assistance, as in hastening a process {the …

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  • 2advance — [adj] ahead in position or time beforehand, earlier, early, first, foremost, forward, in front, in the forefront, in the lead, leading, previously, prior; concepts 583,585,799 Ant. after, behind advance [n1] forward movement advancement, headway …

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  • 3advance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. progress, go forward, proceed; further, second, aid. n. progress, rise; success, gain; prepayment. See progression, debt, offer. Ant., retard; recede, withdraw. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of… …

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  • 4advance — advancingly, adv. /ad vans , vahns /, v., advanced, advancing, n., adj. v.t. 1. to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position. 2. to bring into consideration or notice; suggest; propose: to advance reasons for a… …

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  • 5advance — 1 noun 1 in advance before something happens or is expected to happen: I should warn you in advance, we may be delayed. | six months/a year in advance: Rent is payable three months in advance. (+ of): Could you distribute copies well in advance… …

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  • 6advance — I. v. a. 1. Push, send, or set forward or onward, propel, bring forward, move toward the front. 2. Promote, aggrandize, exalt, elevate, dignify, raise to preferment, raise to higher rank. 3. Forward, further, promote, improve, strengthen, benefit …

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  • 7proposal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. offer, statement, recommendation, proposition, motion, suggestion; request, overture, advance, plan. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Offer] Syn. overture, recommendation, proposition, offer, suggestion, bid,… …

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  • 89/11 advance-knowledge debate — Following the September 11 attacks, many people were asking whether there was any way in which the attacks could have been prevented. Ever since that day there has been lively debate about whether anybody had foreknowledge of the attacks and… …

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  • 9HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

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  • 10Emperor Taizong of Tang — Chinese Emperor birth=birth date|599|1|23 death=death date and age|649|7|10|599|1|23 family name=Li (李) posthumous name full=Wen Wu Dasheng Daguang Xiao Huangdi [Given in final version as of 754.] 文武大聖大廣孝皇帝 [Audio|Chinese Tang Taizhong Posthumous …

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