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gradually
[ graj-oo-uh-lee ]
adverb
- by small degrees or little by little:
The hurricane moved northwestward to northward for two days, gradually weakened to a depression, and then turned eastward.
Over the following decades, the curriculum was gradually expanded, with additional offerings in history, government, languages, geology, and geography.
Other Word Forms
- ܲ···· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of gradually1
Example Sentences
Nandi-Ndaitwah said free university education would be phased in gradually and that the only "contribution as families and students for now will be towards accommodation and other related costs".
Individual pieces of research have gradually identified a host of different brain cell types, upending our simple image of the brain as a very powerful computer.
Ouest France reported that parents had been informed about the attack and that authorities helped students gradually leave the scene.
Over many months, the amount of peanut was gradually increased, slowly building up to Chris eating fractions of nuts and, finally, whole nuts.
We might gradually learn, I suggested, to put up with any government measures as long as they theoretically kept us safe.
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