Gradually and Mildly

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Gradually adverb - By small steps or amounts.

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Mildly and gradually are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mildly" instead an adverb "Gradually".

Nearby Words: gradual, gradation, gradualism

Mildly adverb - To a moderate degree.

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Gradually and mildly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gradually" instead an adverb "Mildly".

Nearby Words: mild, mildness

Over the next season, the tone gradually became lighter, with UNIT becoming more Mildly Military, the stories generally having happy endings, and the violence becoming more fantastic.

Source: Lighter And Softer / Live-Action TV
The protagonist over the course of the novel gradually changes from plunder to peaceful trade mainly because it's more profitable (although he is troubled by the doubtful—to put it mildly—morality of it all, too).

Source: Planet Looters

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