successively
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That report, arriving about three weeks later than usual, will be refined in two successively more accurate estimates in the months that follow, in accordance with the BEA’s usual practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
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
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 ● Oct. 28, 2024
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 ● Sep. 7, 2024
He had been browbeaten and humiliated successively that morning by Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn and Corporal Whitcomb.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
