successively
Example Sentences
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Each of the fall’s three rate cuts faced successively greater internal resistance.
That success made Real the first team from any nation to lift the trophy three times successively in the Champions League era.
From BBC
Pumpkins have come a long way since then, as Indigenous American communities carefully adapted the wild pumpkin into successively bigger and better-tasting varieties.
From Salon
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
A team at the University of California San Diego exposed batches of spores from a strain of Bacillus subtilis bacterium to rounds of successively higher temperatures.
From Science Magazine
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