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piece by piece
Idioms and Phrases
In stages, gradually, as in He took the clock apart piece by piece , or Let's go over your exam paper, piece by piece . Also see bit by bit .Example Sentences
Toscano believes the authorities must now go through all the personal effects piece by piece and make them available to the families for closer inspection.
Piece by piece, the glass-and-wood Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes — designed by Lloyd Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright — was taken apart so that it might be saved.
These tariffs lasted all of about a day before Trump began taking them down, piece by piece.
"He should not be deciding the fate of our democracy by disassembling our government piece by piece. It's not right."
"This is something that investigators will really need to pick apart piece by piece, and that is going to take some really significant time," Muntean said.
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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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