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Graham, 65, has long been a shoo-in in South Carolina, winning Senate races by double digits in three successive races.

The Oxford report suggests a number of possible solutions, including granting two successive games to each host and larger cost contingencies.

From Ozy

As successive years of record-breaking funding signaled investor conviction in the promise of the continent’s startups, the topical focus soon shifted with more scrutiny paid to just how quickly investors could expect profitable exits.

From Quartz

The system then maps a strike zone for each successive batter based on his height in its database.

Conversely, the Raptors got more aggressive the second time they played the Portland Trail Blazers, as well as with each successive game they played against the Charlotte Hornets.

With each successive layer of networks, the U.S. became more potent.

After the three others were killed in successive Israeli operations in the mid-1990s, Zeif took command.

Laypeople tend to regard two successive quarters of negative growth as a recession.

The West has seen what Putin has done with Russia during his successive terms in office.

Perhaps hotels will offer package deals through which visitors can visit all the talk-shows on three successive nights.

Deppe believes that one must go through successive steps of preparation before one is fitted to attack the great concert works.

Marked variation in the amount at successive examinations strongly suggests a neurosis.

Successive examinations may show normal, increased, or diminished hydrochloric acid, or even entire absence of the free acid.

On lifting the fingers in successive order from the bottom end, we get the seven notes of the major scale.

In successive letters he reiterates the caution to beware of surprise and treason, and his anxiety for constant news.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to successive, such as: consecutive, ensuing, subsequent, succeeding/successive, alternating, and following after.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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