one by one

Example Sentences

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"It's allowing them to synthesise vast amounts of information that previously they would have had to do manually one by one."

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

The task is simple: rewrite sentences one by one until the essay passes various A.I. checkers like Originality.ai, GPTZero, or ZeroGPT.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

A lawyer by training, he seems to function primarily by breaking any challenge into small pieces to be noodled over at tedious length one by one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Plus, officials had to pay to conduct searches one by one, not in bulk.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2026

We left her hunting through the cabinet drawers, one by one.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott