week by week
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- idiom
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semana a semana
- We'll be sharing the projects week by week as Christmas approaches.
- grows week by week
- get slower week by week
- take it week by week
the amount of stress that each one of us has on a day-to-day, week by week basis.
- the amount of stress that each one of us has on a day-to-day, week by week basis.
- It's like you just go hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year.
- So how well a helper is doing in class week by week is not the best use of your time.
- So there's this whole culture around being at an Acton that is very intentionally built week by week.
- But really, if you follow this show week by week, you have to ask how much longer would the morale of any soldier hold steady?
- All victories are are small daily wins, stacked hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month that help you back into your values.
Examples
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New shops and businesses open week by week.
Fiction book (2001) -
At the beginning, it was hard to stick to it, but I followed suit week by week.
Blog text (24) -
You can follow week by week as things develop.
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Week by week, however, I could see what was being accomplished.
Academic text (1998) -
Week by week, the crowds at the door keep getting larger.
Fiction book (1990) -
I felt a little bit bloated, but then week by week I started seeing results and more results and it just kind of kept going.
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I'm particularly enjoying their Best of Decade lists being revealed week by week.
Blog text (9) -
I was getting healthier week by week and making progress on my weight-loss journey.
Blog text (19) -
Week by week, though, it became clear that Levine was enjoying our group enormously, and the class developed both intimacy and boisterousness.
Academic text (2013) -
The team's performance improved week by week as they practiced harder.
Synonyms
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Happening once every week
263
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Once each week
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Happens once every week
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Happening many weeks in a row
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Happens every week in the same way for a long time
Once every week
Happens every week
Antonyms
How Often
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'happening each successive week' is directly derived from combining 'week' with the preposition 'by', where 'by' signals unit-by-unit progression (analogous to 'day by day' or 'step by step'), so the sense is literally 'week after week'. This compositional and cross-linguistically common pattern makes the phrase immediately inferable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Week by week gives a simple picture: the unit week repeated one after another, like small steps of time. That's why it means 'happening every week' or 'changing gradually over several weeks'.