piecemeal
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"After decades of limited and piecemeal investments in the North, Canada's new government is acting with a scale of ambition worthy of this vast region and its peoples," he said in March.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Where better to go to find piecemeal work?
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026
At 27 minutes, “Embrace” by Fredrick Earl Mosley is the most piecemeal of the new creations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
Still, lawmakers’ piecemeal approach to affordability thus far — focused on things like lower drug costs or city-run grocery stores — isn’t enough to solve problems that are now far-reaching.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025
The adoption of intensive food production from the Asian mainland was also very slow and piecemeal in Japan, probably because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle based on seafood and local plants was so productive there.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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