day by day
idiom
: in small amounts every day
Day by day, the situation is becoming more complex.
She felt herself growing stronger day by day.
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Funding cliff The children wasting away, day by day, don’t have time to wait for funding gaps to be filled.
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Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Change from the past and change day by day.
—Nicole Young, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
There’s no such thing as perfect, so take it day by day, Gemini.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
This has been a common rhythm for this market, rotating day by day between narrow and broad breadth days, keeping the index from even as much as a 3% pullback since May while alternately allowing for overheated groups to cool now and then.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
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Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Change from the past and change day by day.
—Nicole Young, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
There’s no such thing as perfect, so take it day by day, Gemini.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
This has been a common rhythm for this market, rotating day by day between narrow and broad breadth days, keeping the index from even as much as a 3% pullback since May while alternately allowing for overheated groups to cool now and then.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Day by day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20by%20day. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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