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day by day
day by day
every day Day by day things seem to get more expensive.
Related vocabulary: week by weekday by day
On each successive day, daily, as in Day by day he's getting better. Percy Bysshe Shelley used this expression, first recorded in 1362, in Adonais (1821): "fear and grief ... consume us day by day."