step by step
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"It's in their hands. We need time, an incredible break. I am exhausted and after we see step by step."
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
The film lives in its details — frost creeping along the walls, carbon dioxide levels rising, improvised fixes worked out step by step — as each small success only leads to the next crisis.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Reporter Martin Fackler, who said that entering post-storm Fukushima was “like entering hell,” breaks down, step by step, what occurs inside a nuclear reactor when power is lost and the fissionable material can’t be cooled.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Rather than completing division in a single cycle, the cell achieves it step by step through alternating physical states of the cytoplasm.
From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026
In the meantime, he focused on surviving Stalin’s rages, moving up step by step.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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