baby step

noun

: a very small step or advance in progress

These companies can create products that take a real leap forward, rather than the traditional baby steps that larger companies with greater commitments must make.—

Home Theater

baby-step

ˈbā-bē-ˌstep

verb, transitive + intransitive

baby-stepped; baby-stepping

… after the 2-1 victory that baby-stepped the sixth-place Rangers within four points of the first-place Devils … —

Larry Brooks

"This is murder," John Chaney had said in that ever-raspy voice as he baby-stepped toward the court Thursday night. "My feet are killing me." —

Tom Archdeacon

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Still, Spanish soccer observers say the changes amount to baby steps. —

Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024 To me, this is a baby step toward understanding emergent properties in large language models, like suddenly being able to do arithmetic, answer questions in Greek, or things like that. —

Quanta Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024 Somebody Somewhere has, from the beginning, been about a woman who feels stuck taking baby steps toward change. —

Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2024 Sunday’s win in his home country might be baby steps to a better future for a 27-year-old Next Gen veteran. —

Tim Ellis, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for baby step