one by one
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As Padam Singh and Tulsi count down the days, the handful of villagers around them leave one by one, until the couple find themselves alone in the vast mountain landscape.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
In the following months, every appliance died, one by one.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
During the “Berghain” remix, Rosalía’s dancers drop to the floor as if shot by a sniper, going down one by one with each thunderous drum hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The spacecraft was then hoisted onto a specialized ship, and the four occupants -- Meir, American Jack Hathaway, French astronaut Sophie Adenot and Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev -- were helped out one by one.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Then one by one, people started nodding their heads and looking at each other and nodding more and smiling, because nobody wanted to miss story time, not even Tina Poleetie, who usually slept through it.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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