one by one
idiom
: separately in a series : one at a time : first one and then another one, etc.
I solved the problems one by one.
The performers took the stage one by one.
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Yeomans’s team pursued them one by one, but each proved to be a dead end.
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Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Earlier, during a quiet evening at their home in Dallas, Texas, Muhl and her husband Andrew decided to mix peanut butter with some banana as part of their routine of introducing new foods one by one.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Amid the chaos, Sensei even finds time to calmly introduce, one by one and by name, the family and immigrants living in his household to Bob.
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Athletes coming up to me, one by one.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
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Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Earlier, during a quiet evening at their home in Dallas, Texas, Muhl and her husband Andrew decided to mix peanut butter with some banana as part of their routine of introducing new foods one by one.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Amid the chaos, Sensei even finds time to calmly introduce, one by one and by name, the family and immigrants living in his household to Bob.
—Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Athletes coming up to me, one by one.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
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“One by one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one%20by%20one. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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