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piecemeal

/ˈpiːs.miːl/ noun C2
  1. A fragment; a scrap.

Plural piecemeals

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“Tell me,” cried Danglars, in a tone whose bitterness Harpagon alone has been capable of revealing—“tell me that you wish to despoil me of all; it will be sooner over than devouring me piecemeal.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1083 · C1
He astutely recognized that a piecemeal approach would merely delay the inevitable disaster.
The Great Stink and the Engineering of a Modern Metropolis, p. 1 · C2

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