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The American edition retains the piecemeal lightness of the original experiment.

Luskin makes the best argument he can, of course, but it is piecemeal and speculative.

While a grand bargain is extremely unlikely, Wyden intends to keep pushing for piecemeal reform.

After all, if he is looking for a party of deference, compromise, and piecemeal reform he need look no further.

No, he merely sympathized and proposed piecemeal reforms to the existing systems of exploitation and oppression.

Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.

Imagine his rage and grief at seeing his only friend and companion devoured piecemeal before his very eyes!

This was very buoyant and the carts and baggage were carried over piecemeal in it, with the exception of the last two carts.

The rafts were to be taken apart, and, with their lading, transported overland piecemeal.

Cortes observed that he might fight this way until all of his army had melted away by piecemeal and have taken nothing.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to piecemeal, such as: gradual, at intervals, by fits and starts, fragmentary, intermittent, and interrupted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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