letter by letter
Example Sentences
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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
Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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