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in some manner |
in some respects |
in some way |
in spades |
in spite of appearance |
in stages
| in step
| in step with
| in stock
| in store
| in straitened circumstances
in stages
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial in stages has 1 sense
- in stages(r = adv.all) bit by bit, little by little, piecemeal - a little bit at a time; "the research structure has developed piecemeal"
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