successively

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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 a stagehand and super in St. Louis theaters, then a semi-pro short-stop on Missouri baseball teams, Pastor Perkins went to Drake University, then to California's Berkeley Bible Seminary, became a minister at 22.

From Time Magazine Archive

Successively invaded by Goths, Vandals and Normans the country came into the possession of the Turks in 1481, though for two centuries the power of the Turk was questioned by the Venetians.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly