one by one

idiom

: separately in a series : one at a time : first one and then another one, etc.

I solved the problems one by one.

The performers took the stage one by one.

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First, officials play the National Anthem; then the voters walk one by one to the town’s single voting booth. —

Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024 Releasing updates one by one on a regular basis, rather than all at once, can also disrupt the malware developers. —

Joseph Cox, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024 From there, move through each sense one by one: noticing the objects around you, listening to sounds nearby, and feeling textures around you, like fabric or your own skin. —

Amanda Miller Littlejohn, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 If mathematicians can solve Effective Mordell, that will put them tremendously closer to being able to use a computer algorithm to quickly find all rational solutions rather than having to tediously search for them one by one. —

Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for one by one