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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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
But the appropriators have continued their work through this period… So it’s a touch and go day-by-day analysis that we have here as a leadership team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Decisions on whether to fly to certain destinations could be made on a "day-by-day basis" he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
The first tottering systems of the 1960s required fairly extensive internal surgery merely to function day-by-day.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
"Some magic is happening. I was unlucky with injury and just going day by day," Rybakina told Sky Sports.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"We will see day by day," Rybakina said about her injury.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
In their small living room, his mother sighs: "He still has nightmares at night, and I am getting weaker day by day."
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Sennott: I had to like sort of take it day by day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
She’s got her own friends, and slowly, day by day, I have mine.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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