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
The head-to-head elimination matches have competitors shooting three arrows in each of five “ends,” with the bull’s-eye equaling 10 points, the outer rings successively less.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2024
The books used a “graded” curriculum with successively more complex songs and exercises, and combined author-composed songs in these books with folk and classical material.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
