baby step

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noun

(in the game of giant steps) the shortest step permitted a player, executed by placing the heel of one foot against the toe of the other and drawing the back foot up to the front foot.

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How to use baby step in a sentence

As the plane crested downward, we hopped like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, and did one-handed push-ups, another baby step toward true weightlessness.
How you too can experience weightlessness without having to go to space|Christian Davenport|October 28, 2021|Washington Post
I truly believe this is not a year that you can take incremental or baby steps to how you’re going to spend your money in media.
‘This isn’t the year to take baby steps’: PHD U.S. CEO Catherine Sullivan discusses media spending heading into 2H 2021|Michael Bürgi|May 6, 2021|Digiday
For them, the return to normal life may be a journey of baby steps.
Signs of life amid signs of concern in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic|Joel Achenbach, Ryan Slattery, Kayla Ruble, Caren Chesler|March 25, 2021|Washington Post
Google has been taking baby steps toward making ART a Mainline module in previous years—ART has been packaged as a Mainline module on Pixel phones since Android 10 but has never been updated.
Google announces the Android 12 Developer Preview|Ron Amadeo|February 18, 2021|Ars Technica

While lots of progress has been made on the level of individual funds, individual LPs and in baby steps toward a more general industry-wide push, there are still some core elements that are not in place.
European VC funds are building community around ESG initiatives|Richard Dal Porto|February 11, 2021|TechCrunch
And now just 150 years later, a giant baby step towards meaningful control of malaria perhaps has been made.
A Malaria Vaccine That Cuts 46% of Infections Is a 100% a Big Deal|Kent Sepkowitz|October 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
While advocates welcome the news, they tell Tricia Romano this is only a baby step for the Scouts.
Advocates Hail Boy Scouts Decision on Gay Members, but Fight Isn’t Over|Tricia Romano|January 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST