successively
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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
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
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