successive
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For successive governments this investment from India's Tata Group has been a £5bn triumph of industrial policy, but it is also a minimum requirement to secure the future of British car manufacturing.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
But unlike his peers, Kim Il Sung had built a personality cult robust enough to be passed down to successive generations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
After the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, successive Conservative and Labour governments cut defence spending.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Each rung of the ladder is an inflation-protected security maturing in a successive year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
It was like I’d been hit by three successive waves of heartbreak, each one bigger than the last.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
Vocabulary lists containing successive
Siddhartha
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The Joy Luck Club
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The Thing About Jellyfish
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