inch by inch
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Other characters participate in the recreation rebuilding the space inch by inch.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2025
The Prince of Wales was behind a film camera, being rolled along tracks, gradually closing in on a journalist, inch by inch.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2025
That barrier, too, was knocked down — or more like slow-mo toppled, inch by inch.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2023
Progress is messy, halting and incremental, but it does happen — inch by inch, step by step, mile by mile.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023
The shine spread across her skin inch by inch.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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