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in succession

ADJECTIVE
running
Synonyms
STRONGEST
constant functioning working
STRONG
active cursive dynamic executing going live moving operative proceeding producing smooth
WEAK
alive easy effortless fluent in action in operation incessant perpetual together unbroken unceasing uninterrupted
Antonyms
STRONG
apathetic immobile inactive unexciting
WEAK
broken discontinuous intermittent occasional
ADVERB
by turns
Synonyms
WEAK
alternately one person at a time
ADVERB
consecutively
Synonyms
STRONGEST
successively
WEAK
continuously progressively sequentially serially
ADVERB
one by one
Synonyms
WEAK
gradually individually little by little one at a time separately singly step by step
ADVERB
together
Synonyms
WEAK
consecutively continually continuously night and day on end one after the other running successively unintermittedly without a break without interruption

Example Sentences

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Last season he clinched a seventh Race to Dubai title - his fourth in succession - to eclipse Ballesteros' tally of six and leave him one behind Colin Montgomerie's record.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

With these patterns occurring so close in succession, the risk/reward scenario for a long entry here makes sense.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Disarray in succession served Khamenei once again in 1989.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026

They are filmmakers, each of whom has directed, in succession, the biggest box-office moneymaker of all time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë