advance toward

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advance toward

To move forward or maneuver toward a location or goal The army advanced toward the enemy capital. I crossed the street to avoid the strange man advancing toward me.

See also: advance, toward

References in classic literature ?

It has been delightful to me to watch his advances towards intimacy, especially to observe his altered manner in consequence of my repressing by the cool dignity of my deportment his insolent approach to direct familiarity.

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Surveying more than 300-million-years of evolutionary development as it relates to the skin of homo sapiens, "Skin" addresses the critical role skin plays in human health (including processing sunlight for Vitamin D), the role of melanin in protecting us from the sun's rays, and the advances toward to the creation of artificial skin, gene therapies, reversing the aging process of skin, and other fascinating issues related to our skin.

Skin: A Natural History

Alex's sense of innocence changes in Grade 8 when she befriends the new girl Stacy, who tells everyone that their teacher, Simon, is making sexual advances toward Alex and herself.

Preteen and young teen protagonists

At sunrise, a large crowd advances toward wooden barricades erected to protect storefronts and bystanders.

Bullish steps: a brave traveler tackles el encierro--and lives to run another day. (Travel Talk)

For her, early efforts at moving assembly-line production in meatpacking and canning represent the only bona fide advances toward the rational factory in the first stages of American industrialization (in this respect, the author also ignores certain assembly-line aspects of gun manufacture in her discussion of the development of interchangeable parts production techniques).

The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production

But advances toward the goal of fusion-generated electricity are getting ever more expensive.