letter by letter
Example Sentences
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The RNA polymerases move along these strands and copy the stored information letter by letter.
From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023
Coach Mike Krzyzewski recruited Holloway hard to Duke — when Holloway attended a game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, eight Duke students painted his name on their chests letter by letter.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2022
He repeated these steps set by set, letter by letter, to articulate full sentences.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2022
Yet there’s a reverence for the technologies that enable their words to reach a wider audience, via radio, or carefully hand-set, letter by letter, in a printing press.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2019
Before then, new varieties of organisms could arise only from the accumulation of random mutations—the selection of changes, letter by letter, in the genetic instructions.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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