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step by step

gradually or slowly. These changes need to be made step by step.

Usage notes: also used in the form a step at a time: He wanted to rush through the job, but I encouraged him to take it a step at a time.

See also: step

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And still, step by step with long intervals between, the mass ascended. The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context Presently he began to retire backward, step by step, never for an instant removing his eyes from what he saw, or thought he saw. Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context For I was not prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context More results

References in classic literature

And still, step by step with long intervals between, the mass ascended.

The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context

Presently he began to retire backward, step by step, never for an instant removing his eyes from what he saw, or thought he saw.

Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

For I was not prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

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