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successively

[suhk-ses-iv-lee] / səkˈsɛs ɪv li /








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Successively greater energies are needed to remove the third, fourth, fifth—and so on—electrons from the atom.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Successively, you’re going to be able to produce that music performance that sounds like what you had originally imaged.

From Time • Mar. 15, 2016

Successively renewing loans also makes customers eligible for larger loans from World itself.

From Salon • May 13, 2013

Successively framed by the camera, the young lovers march inexorably toward an impassive clinch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Successively a mechanic, an actor, and an inventor, Singer came to Boston in 1850 to promote his invention of a machine for carving printers’ wooden type.

From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers




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