moment by moment

idiom

: very quickly as time passes
The weather kept changing moment by moment.

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Under David Cromer’s gentle and meticulous direction, Edwards and Flood build out the emotional contours of this unlikely pair of comrade-combatants moment by moment and scene by scene, taking just seventy short minutes to ping us straight in the heart. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024 But the calls coming into the 101 emergency hotline in those minutes are different and become increasingly dramatic moment by moment. Noam Barkan, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2024 Her first pro season is bound to be chronicled moment by moment, ala Michael Jordan, Tom Brady or Derek Jeter style treatment. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2024 Late in the afternoon, the sun set behind the western horizon, leaving a broad band of orange light in its wake, to blend gradually, degree of elevation by degree, moment by moment, into the ever-deepening, ever-darkening blue of the evening sky. Martin Weil, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for moment by moment 

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“Moment by moment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moment%20by%20moment. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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