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successively

[suhk-ses-iv-lee] / səkˈsɛs ɪv li /








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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

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

Still, I wheeled around and watched a column of spirited Australians being successively and violently deposited into mud and water.

From Slate Nov. 3, 2024

As the morning wore on, Max and John successively came by to see if we still thought we had it.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson




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