as in consecutive
following one after another without others coming in between
made the honor roll for three successive school terms
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Recent Examples of successive
Strong Year-to-Year Gains One place that’s almost guaranteed to improve with each successive generation is performance.
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PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
There’s a timeless appeal to yellow gold that makes its mark (at one point or another) on each successive generation that enters the watch-collecting hobby.
—Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2025
Last May, Italian player Jannik Sinner—who is currently ranked number one in the world and clinched his second successive Australian Open—went public with his romance with Russian player Anna Kalinskaya.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2025
By repeating this process over and over, three-dimensional objects can be built up in successive layers.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 25 Jan. 2025
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PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025
There’s a timeless appeal to yellow gold that makes its mark (at one point or another) on each successive generation that enters the watch-collecting hobby.
—Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2025
Last May, Italian player Jannik Sinner—who is currently ranked number one in the world and clinched his second successive Australian Open—went public with his romance with Russian player Anna Kalinskaya.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2025
By repeating this process over and over, three-dimensional objects can be built up in successive layers.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 25 Jan. 2025
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“Successive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/successive. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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