The phrase "embodiment of progress" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It can be used in various contexts, such as describing a person, a concept, or an object that represents or symbolizes advancement or improvement. Example: "The new electric car model was hailed as the embodiment of progress in the automotive industry."
"In my district, I can knock on doors and see the embodiment of the progress we've made in this country for working families.
Liu Xiang, no hulking figure himself, was China's version of Freeman: an upbeat, upwardly mobile embodiment of national progress who had thrived long enough in his event, the 110-meter hurdles, to build up expectations on a scale that the Chinese emperors would have appreciated.
Americans and the world saw the Obama years as the embodiment of social progress.
Without mature and sensible laws governing biological patents, they are in danger of becoming the embodiment of impediment to progress.
Jobs himself – ironically, given how often he is used as the embodiment of individualism driving progress – was fascinated by sharing.
Obama, he argues, is a "work in progress," at times an embodiment of the most expansive progressive hopes, at other points a moderate centrist moving cautiously and politically through the thickets of his time.
WWD bluntly spelled it out further, calling Talley "a living embodiment of the limits of racial progress in fashion and media, the most prominent black figure in fashion who never became an editor-in-chief of a major magazine".
Today President Barack Obama, the living embodiment of RFK's belief in the progress of equality, finds himself challenged from all sides for believing in exactly that kind of hope.
It was, for the most part, an embodiment of the group's findings as to the progress that had been made and the actions it intended to take where progress had been faltering or nonexistent.
"We're now starting to see real embodiment, real progress".
