David Christian

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.

American Historian

Jason Reitman

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

Canadian Director

Haile Selassie

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

Ethiopian Statesman

Finn Wittrock

Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

American Actor

Melissa Leong

My journey into the world of work after that was a bit more piecemeal than I would have liked, and it took a while to find the place in the world where I truly felt I belonged.

Annie Dillard

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

American Author

John Howe

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Canadian Artist

Sydney Greenstreet

Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.

English Actor

Iain Duncan Smith

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

British Politician

Smriti Irani

My belief is that policy cannot be piecemeal.

Indian Politician

Use 'piecemeal' when describing tasks completed in steps over time, rather than all at once.

Progressive Action

Indicates that only parts of something are done, suggesting incompleteness or an ongoing process.

Partial Completion

Suggests work done in an unsystematic or scattered manner, which may not be ideal.

Scattered Effort

Describes actions or processes that have clear interruptions or gaps, not flowing continuously.

Non-continuous

In some contexts, 'piecemeal' implies a structured approach, deliberately working in phases.

Structured Phases

 or its transportation system while they're being replaced by something more efficient. Changes have to happen piecemeal. And that's how it is for the brain. There is no way for evolution to rip out the ancient interior of the brain because of its imperfections

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 Others were trying to switch careers in middle age, and they needed to take courses piecemeal. They needed half of this degree and a quarter of this one. A single dad writes me and says how he's trying to go to nursing school,

Piecemeal