The phrase "progressive understanding" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the ongoing development and improvement of one's understanding or knowledge about a certain topic or concept. Here is an example of how to use it in a sentence: "Through continued research and analysis, scientists have gained a progressive understanding of climate change and its effects on the environment."
We are heirs both to this progressive understanding of the child and to the Romantic vision.
The modelling process builds a progressive understanding of relationships among the different levels of the IT architecture.
Berle and Means were trying to promote a Progressive understanding of capital markets and corporate governance that was not very old.
Well-thought-out strategies and progressive understanding of the risks, benefits, and service and maintenance requirements of these devices have led to some experience-based criteria and advice.
Taking advantage of the masses of data stored in modern manufacturing systems, it allows a progressive understanding of the relationships between the different domains of the IT architecture.
It's a stunningly naïve perspective, demonstrating that what Mr. Mayer might perceive as a progressive understanding of race can be just as shortsighted and pat as a conservative one.
In the United States, the Christian Right rails against progressive understandings of religion and the separation of church and state.
As Bridges (2010) emphasises, drag (the explicit performance of gender for an audience) does not automatically produce politically progressive understandings of gender, and what counts as a progressive gender and sexual transgression is shaped by both its context and its performance.
By contributing to man's progressive self-understanding, science refines man's conscience and thus takes on a moral or spiritual aspect.
If in fact large numbers of progressives believe that 9/11 would have damaged the popularity of a Gore administration, I would have to negatively revise my estimates of progressives' basic understanding of the workings of the political universe.
We want to be reassured that there really is something progressive about human understanding.
