successively

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That report, arriving about three weeks later than usual, will be refined in two successively more accurate estimates in the months that follow, in accordance with the BEA’s usual practice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”

From Salon • Dec. 20, 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

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

The ancestors of modern speakers of Thai, Lao, and Burmese all moved south from South China and adjacent areas to their present locations within historical times, successively inundating the settled descendants of previous migrations.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond