Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
"The nation's demand for change continues to grow day-by-day, getting stronger."
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
Rovere, on the other hand, found the book to be “barren of ideas and imagination,” and “scarcely more interesting or enlightening than the day-by-day newspaper accounts.”
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026
Decisions on whether to fly to certain destinations could be made on a "day-by-day basis" he said.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025
We have not met for seventeen years,—up to that we had spent, nearly day-by-day, the previous ten or twelve years always together.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund
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