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one by one

adverb as in one at a time

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"Battlefield" challenges its rival with smaller multiplayer maps than usual and a "battle royale" mode where players eliminate each other one by one, similar to a popular mode found on "Call of Duty".

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“Then, one by one, people started to trickle back. They were all very pale in the face and some were bleeding.”

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The report Eisman wrote trashed all of the subprime originators; one by one, he exposed the deceptions of a dozen companies.

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As we entered Delhi from the neighbouring suburb of Noida, we could see a long queue of vehicles at the border as policemen searched them one by one.

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It takes several hours, as though they are building up courage, before one by one they leave the safety of the aviary behind and fly off into the wild.

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

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