day-by-day
adjective
taking place each day; daily.
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day by dayOn each successive day, daily, as in Day by day he's getting better. Percy Bysshe Shelley used this expression, first recorded in 1362, in Adonais (1821): “fear and grief ... consume us day by day.”
day-by-day
American
[dey-bahy-dey]
/ ˈdeɪ baɪˈdeɪ /
adjective
day by day
Idioms
Etymology
Origin of day-by-day
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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This permission could be granted or denied on a day-by-day, ship-by-ship basis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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
"I've said it for a while, I'm taking it day-by-day, series-by-series, and we'll see where things land," said Smith, who has played 122 Tests and scored more than 10,000 runs.
From Barron's ● Jan. 3, 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
It is a day-by-day religion; a here-and-now religion.
From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah
"The Yellow Line keeps moving day by day," said Abu Kamel Hamami who is displaced in Gaza City.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
However, there could be "significant variations from place to place and day by day", the forecaster said.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Having "something to lighten all the burdens that we're dealing with day by day is incredible," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
The genius needed chastening, and in “Steve Jobs in Exile” you can witness it happening, sometimes day by day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
“Interesting. So now rich people can’t decide what to do day by day, they need a schedule to tell them.”
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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