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day-by-day
[ dey-bahy-dey ]
adjective
- taking place each day; daily:
a day-by-day account.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of day-by-day1
Idioms and Phrases
On each successive day, daily, as in Day by day he's getting better . Percy Bysshe Shelley used this expression, first recorded in 1362, in Adonais (1821): “fear and grief ... consume us day by day.â€Example Sentences
“It’s a day-by-day soap opera, and just like a soap opera, you get relief, then it heats up again,†said Jonathan D. Aronson, a professor of international communication and international relations at USC.
“We’re kind of just assessing it day-by-day. We hope to have him back within the next few games,†Redick said after practice.
"But it's the families and getting justice that keeps us going day-by-day."
“I didn’t want to risk pitching through something in such a close, important game. We’ll take it day-by-day, but right now, I’m all right. I plan to keep going.â€
Cracks have appeared in the ice and the edge with the sea is getting closer day-by-day.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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