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Adverb
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Candidates for District 9 interviewed by the Southern California News Group said many residents increasingly connect ethics and accountability concerns at City Hall with broader frustrations over neighborhood conditions, city services and economic investment in the district.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
9 May 2026 -
That, increasingly, is the issue.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 May 2026
Adverb
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In the task involving different tones, the researchers found that individual hippocampal neurons discriminated between standard and unexpected tones by making their response to the latter progressively more distinct.—
Jacek Krywko,
Scientific American,
6 May 2026
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Xi’s government has been progressively cranking up the use of alternative tools, from rare earths to technology.—
Bloomberg,
Fortune,
4 May 2026
Adverb
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Britain didn’t withdraw, but its Royal Navy gradually redistributed its ships.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Ease off the accelerator gradually and avoid abrupt braking to prevent skidding.—
Southern California Weather Report,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
Adverb
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The birth at the San Diego Zoo is just one deer — but little by little, a little becomes a lot.—
Ryan Brennan
April 24,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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Consequently, in the 1980s, the ideas and ideals embodied in the New World Information and Communication Order debates and the MacBride Report were little by little stowed away as free market and globalization became the key words in a new digital communication era.—
Stijn Joye,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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His is a method of ruthless practicality, of taking apart mathematics piece by piece and asking what is necessary.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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The technique requires building each flower piece by piece, adding to the hyperrealistic effect.—
Annie Blay-Tettey,
Allure,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Crescively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crescively. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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