the ant was making little headway carrying a crumb that was about five times his size
Recent Examples on the WebBut right now, the intent is to really go after the ByteDance-TikTok dynamic and make some headway there.—Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024 The declines in these areas for those who abstained from using were more striking, but fewer were able to make that leap, and many others didn't make any headway.—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024 Several critics of the new effort say the city won’t make real headway until its leaders deal with the root causes of addiction, including a shortage of affordable housing and effective treatment options and a faltering social safety net.—Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024 Right now, women are making the most headway in C-suite positions that typically don’t require critical profit-and-loss oversight.—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024 Pittsburgh is just 5-6-3 since Jan. 1 while failing to make any headway toward a postseason berth that used to be a matter of course for Sidney Crosby and company.—Will Graves, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024 Despite the financial losses the company experienced, some headway was made as UPS worked to return customers who had previously transferred their business to other shippers such as FedEx and USPS during the union negotiations.—Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 30 Jan. 2024 The federal government made some headway toward mitigating that issue last week, announcing $623 million in funding earmarked for battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell charging stations.—Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 17 Jan. 2024 The central bank has made notable headway in bringing down wayward inflation since starting to raise rates aggressively nearly two years ago.—Krystal Hur, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
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