piece by piece
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When Alejandro Castillo, 9, got stuck on a sentence containing “Transcontinental Railroad,” she helped him sound it out piece by piece.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026
In a matter of minutes it dug away what it had taken humans hours to remove, piece by piece.
From Barron's • Jun. 28, 2026
There we were: two strangers in Silver Lake, surrounded by furniture being sold off piece by piece, both trying to make new lives from the remains of our old ones.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
"A lot of these songs were rebellions. I used them to rebuild myself, piece by piece, brick by brick."
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
He had come—deliberately—to a lab built to take things apart piece by piece.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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