successive
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That would be his third and final edition as a player, but Der Kaiser returned in the dugout to lead his country to successive finals.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Daniel Mason splices together different narrative strands to create a single story connecting its successive inhabitants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The new borders law targeting people who pilot small boats is the latest attempt by successive governments to stem the flow of people arriving in the UK illegally via the Channel.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Heavier elements are created inside stars and become more abundant over time as successive generations of stars live and die.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
Like my parents, Mr. Pirzada took off his shoes before entering a room, chewed fennel seeds after meals as a digestive, drank no alcohol, for dessert dipped austere biscuits into successive cups of tea.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing successive
Siddhartha
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The Joy Luck Club
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The Thing About Jellyfish
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