piecemeal
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Apple delivered new Siri capabilities piecemeal in the following months, and the company announced in March 2025 that a full Siri overhaul would be pushed to 2026.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
"This will just be another piecemeal fix that won't improve anything," says Pradhan, who is also a qualified facial surgeon.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
Where better to go to find piecemeal work?
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026
At 27 minutes, “Embrace” by Fredrick Earl Mosley is the most piecemeal of the new creations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
Companies installed systems piecemeal or found that one computer-software system was good for the accounting department and another system was best for inventory management and a third was best for e-mail.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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