step-by-step

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When applied to the cultivated octoploid strawberry, the technique revealed a step-by-step evolutionary history shaped by multiple rounds of allopolyploidization, providing new insight into how complex plant genomes form and diversify over millions of years.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026

At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, the group unveiled MAI-Thinking-1, its first "reasoning" model -- AI systems that break down problems step-by-step before responding, similar to offerings from OpenAI, Google or Anthropic.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

In recent decades, so-called scrum teams—cross-functional groups focused on deploying and iterating quickly—have replaced a slower, step-by-step engineering methodology known as “waterfall.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

You can take a virtual tour of the five rooms of the Biocontainment Unit and its step-by-step process of managing extra-infectious patients.

From Slate • May 14, 2026

They begin by listening and repeating, mastering the linguistic process step-by-step.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin