PIECE BY PIECE Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

piece by piece

adverb

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as in gradually

by small steps or amounts worked out the solution piece by piece

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Recent Examples of piece by piece Removed from an Oxfordshire country house in 1931 and shipped across the Atlantic piece by piece, the lavish Rococo dining room remains on display today as one of the museum’s standout period rooms. —

Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 June 2026 Nearly 40 years ago, a building was sent over piece by piece from Norway to a farm in Chippewa County, Minnesota. —

John Lauritsen, CBS News, 4 June 2026 Emotional literacy, the ability to identify, understand, and respond to emotions healthily, is not an innate skill; it is built piece by piece. —

Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 3 June 2026 So did his soccer career, day by day, piece by piece. —

Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for piece by piece

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gradually

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Populations have since gradually recovered due to conservation efforts.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 22 June 2026
Chetty, the economist, observed that the likelihood of outearning one’s parents gradually fell from ninety-two per cent among those born in 1940 to about fifty per cent among those born forty years later.

— Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

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