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View definitions for one after another

one after another

adverb as in in turn

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“Had there been one case charged and only one, there’s certainly a reasonable possibility that a judge or jury would have acquitted. The problem was one after another.”

Most of his family’s network worked in medicine, and after they said how sorry they were, one after another repeated the same message.

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They observed six of the animals licking nectar-filled flowers from as many as 30 plants, one after another—coating their muzzles in pollen in the process.

The demographic change made it difficult for older people to live in Senboku-NT as neighborhood shops closed one after another, leaving frail older adults unable to maintain their daily life within walking distance.

She described a message from someone she works with: “it was like, all three of the hospitals in the north like ‘boom, boom, boom,’ one after another are under attack.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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