successively
Example Sentences
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Each of the fall’s three rate cuts faced successively greater internal resistance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
That success made Real the first team from any nation to lift the trophy three times successively in the Champions League era.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025
Pumpkins have come a long way since then, as Indigenous American communities carefully adapted the wild pumpkin into successively bigger and better-tasting varieties.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024
After a series of apologies that became successively more contrite, Al-Alim staked out a somewhat different position at a campaign forum last week, asserting, “I’m not ashamed of anything.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2024
He had been browbeaten and humiliated successively that morning by Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn and Corporal Whitcomb.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
