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How to spell advancing

Advancing is spelled A-D-V-A-N-C-I-N-G.

What it means: Moving forward in a purposeful way.

In a sentence: The line of hikers was advancing steadily toward the mountain peak. ▶

The part people get wrong

Drop the silent e before adding -ing.

Same family: advance, advancement, advances. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

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