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ADVERB
gradually
Synonyms
STRONGEST
constantly continuously deliberately gently increasingly moderately progressively regularly steadily
WEAK
bit by bit by degrees imperceptibly in small doses inch by inch little by little perceptibly piece by piece piecemeal sequentially serially step by step successively unhurriedly
Antonyms
WEAK
abruptly fastly intermittently suddenly
ADVERB
partially
Synonyms
STRONGEST
moderately partly somewhat
WEAK
by degrees fractionally halfway in part in some measure little by little not wholly piece by piece piecemeal to a certain degree to a certain extent
Antonyms
WEAK
completely totally wholly

Example Sentences

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Some of Well Fargo’s IT vendors have already paid the 2018 rebate in full while others have asked to pay by installments, according to the sources familiar with the situation.

From Reuters • Nov. 12, 2019

Arbabsiar wired them $100,000 as a down-payment, which was to be followed by installments of $10,000, prosecutors said.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 11, 2011

The Times plans to go national by installments.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you buy a car by installments, you've got something to look at and use.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are wholly unshackled, further than that you are to repay by installments the money expended in the building of the house.

From The Children of the New Forest by Marryat, Frederick