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successively
adverb as in apiece
Strongest matches
adverb as in consecutively
adverb as in frequently
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adverb as in gradually
adverb as in in turn
adverb as in running
Example Sentences
Still, I wheeled around and watched a column of spirited Australians being successively and violently deposited into mud and water.
Pumpkins have come a long way since then, as Indigenous American communities carefully adapted the wild pumpkin into successively bigger and better-tasting varieties.
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.
In applying the doctrine, the justices continued, “The crucial determination is whether the two entities that seek successively to prosecute a defendant for the same course of conduct can be termed separate sovereigns. This determination turns on whether the prosecuting entities' powers to undertake criminal prosecutions derive from separate and independent sources.”
That said, the authors only hint at obesity as being a culprit of the cancer rate spike, arguing that "the rising cancer incidence for many cancer types in successively younger generations suggests increases in the prevalence of carcinogenic exposures during early life or young adulthood, which have yet to be elucidated."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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