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The RNA polymerases move along these strands and copy the stored information letter by letter.

From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023

He repeated these steps set by set, letter by letter, to articulate full sentences.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2022

“C-O-V-I-D-19,” Trump said, spelling out, letter by letter, the name of the disease ravaging the nation.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2020

Yet there’s a reverence for the technologies that enable their words to reach a wider audience, via radio, or carefully hand-set, letter by letter, in a printing press.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2019

Before encryption machines came along, people had to compose their own ciphers, writing them out letter by letter.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield