count one by one
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The camera jumped to Ms. Jarrett, outside a Manhattan courthouse, who over the next 87 spellbinding seconds read off each count, one by one, followed by the same two-syllable verdict:
From New York Times • May 30, 2024
They’re literally going to count one by one.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2021
Can you be a coward?" continued Villefort, with increasing excitement, "you, who could count, one by one, the minutes of four death agonies?
From The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas père, Alexandre
