piecemeal

Example Sentences

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You are in a fortunate position: It’s easier to sell shares piecemeal than, say, real estate.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

This means we relegate ourselves to relying on the goodwill of physicians like Craven and piecemeal grant funding to uncover new uses and facilitate their adoption.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

If you have multiple IRAs, you can give piecemeal from more than one IRA but the total annual amount given for an individual cannot exceed $111,000.

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

But expanding rights piecemeal creates a nightmare for divorce lawyers, who found themselves building the plane in midair with gay breakups in the aughts and early 2010s.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

With the benefit of hindsight, surely we can see that piecemeal policy reform or litigation alone would have been a futile approach to dismantling Jim Crow segregation.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander