as in consecutive
following one after another without others coming in between
explained that if the two required algebra semesters weren't sequential, the students would likely forget the material
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Chaining tasks means breaking a process into sequential steps, where each builds on the last.
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Jodie Cook, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
In the past 45 years, Walmart has posted only one modest year-over-year sequential sales decline of -0.7% in FY2016.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
Still, its guidance assumes that China sales will be negative in the first half of 2025, followed by sequential improvement across the third and fourth quarters.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2025
So the team reasoned that Zipf’s law of frequency might appear not just in humans but also anywhere else sequential vocal signals are culturally learned (transmitted from one individual to another).
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2025
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Jodie Cook, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
In the past 45 years, Walmart has posted only one modest year-over-year sequential sales decline of -0.7% in FY2016.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
Still, its guidance assumes that China sales will be negative in the first half of 2025, followed by sequential improvement across the third and fourth quarters.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2025
So the team reasoned that Zipf’s law of frequency might appear not just in humans but also anywhere else sequential vocal signals are culturally learned (transmitted from one individual to another).
—Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sequential
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“Sequential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sequential. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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