Individual
Individual adjective - Of, relating to, or belonging to a single person.
One by one and individual are semantically related. In some cases you can use "One by one" instead an adjective "Individual".
One by one
One by one adverb - One piece at a time.
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Synonyms for One by one
Individual and one by one are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Individual" instead an adjective phrase "One by one".
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- It's powerful, but suffers from a very long reload time (the animation is putting each individual shell into the gun one by one).
Source: Standard FPS Guns -
One by one, the antagonist (often a deeply troubled individual, but just as often someone who is pure evil) will kill off the kids in the most brutal way possible.
Source: Slasher Movie - They act out this trope to its full extent with supervillians, killing them off one by one as soon as they can get an individual respective contract with the government.
Source: Webcomic / Redd
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