gradually

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Some of these appeared fewer than 2,000 years after the asteroid strike, marking the start of a long recovery that would gradually restore biodiversity over the next 10 million years.

From Science Daily

The water infrastructure system that California built over the last century, she said, depends heavily on snow naturally storing water and then gradually releasing snowmelt into reservoirs to serve cities and farmlands.

From Los Angeles Times

For others the trigger is grievance, isolation or personal instability, which gradually hardens inside online echo chambers, where resentment circulates freely.

From The Wall Street Journal

Their analysis suggests that water from a nearby Martian mountain gradually seeped into the dunes through tiny fractures.

From Science Daily

This steady stream of charged particles flowing outward from the Sun has gradually eroded Mars' atmosphere over billions of years.

From Science Daily