advance on

idiom

: to approach usually in order to attack
Enemy soldiers are advancing on the city.

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They are certainly favored to advance on Sunday, but UConn is a tough draw this early. Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025 Cramer suggested that the market was able to advance on Monday — the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.85%, the S&P 500 added 0.64% and the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.31% — because Trump didn’t make any inflammatory posts. Julie Coleman, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2025 The Buckeyes advance on to the semifinals with Cotie McMahon leading all scorers with 18 points on the night. Allison Smith, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 The current study is an advance on an earlier dissolvable pacemaker by the same team. Payal Dhar, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for advance on

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“Advance on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advance%20on. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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