successively

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The Commerce Department usually publishes three sets of quarterly GDP, each successively more accurate, but Thursday’s update—the second—will serve as the final third-quarter pass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Most cases went 5 to 4 with majorities shifting successively on each side.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

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

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas