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  1. By degrees, as in You'll have to go through this recipe step by step. This idiom transfers putting one foot in front of the other to other kinds of progress. [c. 1700]

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The study suggests this climate pattern may have helped motivate people to travel step by step farther east, including to islands such as the Cooks and Tahiti.

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Since then, Mr. Dobrindt has been dismantling the refugee policies of previous governments step by step.

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"It's been an incredibly tough journey throughout the year, but step by step, I managed to achieve gold medals along the way."

From BBC

To grasp this idea, imagine how a computer works -- it follows a set of defined instructions step by step.

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In the meantime, he focused on surviving Stalin’s rages, moving up step by step.

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