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step-by-step

 adjective
     
step-by-step [only before noun]
a step-by-step plan, method etc explains or does something carefully and in a particular order
step-by-step guide/approach/instructions etc
a step-by-step guide to making it in the music business
—step by step adverb:
Take each lesson step by step.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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