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Great Leap Forward

noun

  1. the Great Leap Forward
    the attempt by the People's Republic of China in 1959–60 to solve the country's economic problems by labour-intensive industrialization
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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And after a slow start to 2024 there was another great leap forward in Miami in May this year.

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However – and it’s a big however – the story of disability in film is perpetually one of two steps forward, one step back, and Nessarose in “Part 1” is definitely a great leap forward.

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just a few years ago seemed like a treacherous attempt to make a great leap forward finally feels like normal.

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It follows that anyone who does not bow down mindlessly in obeisance to them is evil, and must be purged, for society to be cleansed, to usher in the “Great Leap Forward” or “Thousand Year Reich.”

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From 1958 to 1961, at least 25 million people died in the famine associated with the Great Leap Forward in China.

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