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gradually

[ graj-oo-uh-lee ]

adverb

  1. 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.



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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".

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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.

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Ouest France reported that parents had been informed about the attack and that authorities helped students gradually leave the scene.

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Over many months, the amount of peanut was gradually increased, slowly building up to Chris eating fractions of nuts and, finally, whole nuts.

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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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