as in gradual
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Recent Examples of stepwise
The percentage of uninsured respondents in the 30-49 age cohort, which was the first group targeted in a stepwise introduction of the requirement, rose to 14.5% in 2018 from 10.5% in 2016.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stepwise
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This year, the number of high school graduates will peak at around 3.9 million and then begin a gradual descent that will result in about 13% fewer by 2041.—
Paul Weinstein Jr,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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Instead, the change was a gradual softening, a growing sense that my shoulders had dropped a bit and my tongue wasn’t glued so tightly to the roof of my mouth.—
Anya Meyerowitz,
Glamour,
9 May 2025
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By the third month of tracking, our cumulative time savings grew from 29 hours to about 107 hours across our 10-person team, roughly a month's worth of gains.—
Bozhanka Vitanova,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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Oblivion returns to a world where the two-year-old Elden Ring is already halfway to Skyrim’s 60 million in cumulative sales.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
8 May 2025
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“Stepwise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stepwise. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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