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phase in

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phase in something
to introduce something gradually in stages. The plan would phase in a pay raise for many state-government workers. They added too many stores at once instead of phasing them in over time.
Opposite of: phase out something
See also: phase


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One phase in which Mademoiselle Stangerson had really been attacked --the other phase in which those who heard her cries thought she was being attacked.
The neighbours sent him their sons at the beginning of any important phase in their lives, and he received them in this very arbour, administering eloquent and minute advice in the deep voice that rolled round the shrubbery and filled me with a vague sense of guilt as I played.
Shortly after this last occurrence--I think the very next day--I began to be aware of a phase in my abnormal sensibility, to which, from the languid and slight nature of my intercourse with others since my illness, I had not been alive before.
 
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