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View definitions for successively

successively

adverb as in apiece

adverb as in consecutively

adverb as in in turn

adverb as in running

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Example Sentences

In successive Januarys, the Mets have been forced to terminate a manager and a GM before either could preside over a single game.

A mix of slightly older and younger age estimates can result from gaps that form in successive mineral layers, Brumm’s team says.

In short vignettes in this massive book, he illustrates how successive administrations served wine as a subtle element of diplomacy.

There’s a reason why successive long-form paragraphs uninhibited by headers is a literary form.

These Georgia races give Democrats the chance to overcome the disappointment of Tuesday’s losses in a handful of races they considered tossups that appeared to leave them still in the minority for a fourth successive election.

Whether all this can successively transpire in the wake of whatever happens with health-care legislation is highly problematic.

The metal is then removed, and washed successively with very dilute sodium hydroxid solution, alcohol, and ether.

It seeks the shortest phrase or sentence and adds successively all the modifiers, making no omissions.

A gentleman being out a-shooting with Mr. Elwes, missed a dozen times successively.

Oliver Wolcott died; a statesman under Washington, and 10 years successively governor of Connecticut.

The obligation of a permanent duty cannot be dissolved; but the observance of it may and ought to be vowed successively.

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On this page you'll find 119 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to successively, such as: aside, individually, respectively, separately, all, and a pop.

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

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