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• For about half of those, the pills have to be counted out one by one.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• The coffins were carried in and the names were read: one by one by one by one by one.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Step 4: Clean and Dry Pull the silver pieces out of the mixture one by one.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 14 Apr. 2023
• The balloons were then popped, one by one, to fully expose the 26-year-old artist.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• The dolls appear, one by one, coated in sand and muck and seaweed.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Circles formed and one by one bold and gilled performed.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• And the crew members start to get picked off one by one, always after the sun has gone down.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
• Naomi Campbell came by and caught me learning to climb the steps, one by one.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2024
• Other buildings would be added on a one by one basis to spread out the costs.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
• The game involves guessing words that are acted out one by one to form a phrase.
  — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• But one by one, all of them faltered as the virus mutated.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2023
• The judge is shown placing medals around the necks of the children one by one but then skipping past the only Black girl there.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 26 Sep. 2023
• One person wears the shirt with the other puts a Q-Tip in the straw one by one and blows it out onto their target.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 8 Apr. 2023
• Mayhem broke out as police took down tents, one by one.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
• Slowly, all the fake answers disappeared from the screen one by one.
  — Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
• Then, one by one, members of the tribe began to rise and share stories about Mary Goudy-Settler.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
• Inside were six hidden bottles of Smirnoff Ice, worth $12, and the clerk began pulling them out one by one.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 25 May 2023
• The Orb is there too, chrome, gleaming, mounted at eye-level on a pole, waiting to scan us, one by one.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• After an hour of bumping and grinding, people fall out and sit down, one by one.
  — Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
• The Starship depot will linger in low-Earth orbit as tankers arrive one by one.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• But even with all that sugar, the textures announce themselves one by one.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
• Colorado Parks and Wildlife experts swung crate doors open one by one to let the wolves run free onto public land.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2023
• For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed him of teeth, one by one.
  — Zach Dyer, CBS News, 9 May 2024
• Anxious and lonely, Diana snuck downstairs to the kitchen in the middle of the night and started grabbing desserts one by one.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, another team heaved the empty dugouts from the riverbank, to be pulled along the skidway one by one.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• The pigeons are sent down this dark tunnel and emerge in the world where there are shooters taking these pigeons out, one by one.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• While diners enjoy the greenery around the water, trees elsewhere have been felled one by one.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Use a cotton swab with rubbing alcohol to rub them off one by one.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 10 May 2023
• Around 11:30, the board members themselves began speaking on the issue, one by one.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 10 May 2024
• The women waited in an antechamber and were summoned into the room one by one.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024