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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Complicating matters is several of the lethal alien creatures on board, including a xenomorph-spawning facehugger, escape from their confines and pick off the crew one by one until Morrow is the sole survivor.
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EW.com, 3 Sep. 2025
For example, a recruiter might log into a talent CRM, manually search for candidates using filters, then review and rank them one by one.
—Abakar Saidov, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Acting like a factory assembly line, the ribosome then links amino acids together, one by one, to build a protein.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
And then our contacts within Twitter started to drop off, one by one.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
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EW.com, 3 Sep. 2025
For example, a recruiter might log into a talent CRM, manually search for candidates using filters, then review and rank them one by one.
—Abakar Saidov, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Acting like a factory assembly line, the ribosome then links amino acids together, one by one, to build a protein.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
And then our contacts within Twitter started to drop off, one by one.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for one by one
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“One by one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one%20by%20one. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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