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worked out the solution piece by piece
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Between September and November 2024, a team of 14 divers carefully brought the wooden shipwreck to the surface, piece by piece.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
The skeleton of one of ESO's flagship cosmic imager for the coming decades can be seen here coming together piece by piece in the mountains of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
After practicing on a mock-up of the damaged reactor, Mr. Carter and the others, sealed in protective suits, entered the radioactive wreckage, disassembling it piece by piece.
—Bill Marsh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Scanning the silver foil piece by piece, researchers were able to create a decipherable rendering of portions of the text.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
The skeleton of one of ESO's flagship cosmic imager for the coming decades can be seen here coming together piece by piece in the mountains of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
After practicing on a mock-up of the damaged reactor, Mr. Carter and the others, sealed in protective suits, entered the radioactive wreckage, disassembling it piece by piece.
—Bill Marsh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Scanning the silver foil piece by piece, researchers were able to create a decipherable rendering of portions of the text.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Piece by piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piece%20by%20piece. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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