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as in outcome
a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause
the attempt to help was a natural sequence to her charitable nature
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as in chain
a series of things linked together
a sequence of events that no one predicted
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as in arrangement
the way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another
police are trying to reconstruct the sequence of events
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Recent Examples of sequence
Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Some of his pitch sequencing has gotten predictable.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 27 July 2025
Maria Williams, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
The production also takes good visual advantage of its many scenic Ontario, Canada, locations, especially a sweeping pivotal sequence that’s shot on the SkyBridge, which holds the record as the longest pedestrian bridge in North America.
—Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Eric Olson, a wheat breeding and genetics professor at Michigan State University, has been working to sequence the genome of the DNA.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Some of his pitch sequencing has gotten predictable.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 27 July 2025
Verb
By introducing a ballet sequence that reimagined a character’s death, Bell gave the audience a resolution that felt both surprising and inevitable.
—Maria Williams, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
The production also takes good visual advantage of its many scenic Ontario, Canada, locations, especially a sweeping pivotal sequence that’s shot on the SkyBridge, which holds the record as the longest pedestrian bridge in North America.
—Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sequence
Noun
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Local organizations are training AI models on regional medical data to improve healthcare outcomes.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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With an outside agency taking the lead, local officials hoped to mitigate concerns over conflicts of interest and inspire public trust in the investigation’s outcome, the county wrote last month in a letter to Bonta.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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With masses equivalent to millions or even billions of suns, supermassive black holes are too massive to have been born from dying stars; instead, it is theorized that they are created when smaller black holes collide and merge, and a chain of progressively larger and larger mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The investment group also includes the Cherng Family Trust, the family office of the co-founders of the Panda Express restaurant chain, according to Friday’s statement.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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First, assume that classification will be litigated if the arrangement is aggressive or if the borrower is thinly capitalized.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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To start things off, the SPCO performs a new string orchestra arrangement of Zehetmair’s 2023 string trio, Passacaglia, Burlesque and Choral.—
Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
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Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray is set to hold a news conference to announce the charges against Robinson after they are filed in the late morning and will be made available to the public immediately after that, according to Utah County officials.—
Jon Haworth,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2025
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According to a Manhattan Supreme Court foreclosure suit filed in December that names both Bill and Camille, the pair stopped making payments on the loans in June 2024 in addition to failing to pay over $300,000 in property taxes.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
15 Sep. 2025
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The result is that the field of ketamine therapy goes unregulated.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Police have not indicated whether the test results have come back, who owns the dogs or if there are more dogs possibly being investigated.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Earlier this week, transit officials in North Carolina released a graphic video showing the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Zarutska on a light rail train.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Some include the Madrid train bombings, where 193 died in 2004, the 2005 London tube bombings with 56 dead, and an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester where 23 were killed in 2017.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Starbucks is applying machine learning to personalize the digital ordering experience in the app.—
Randy Bean,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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But by 2016, stickers replaced handwriting as mobile ordering grew more popular, and the practice completely disappeared in 2020 with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Businesses that embrace flexible partnerships and prioritize protection will be the ones positioned to thrive.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Stay informed, stay vigilant, and prioritize your well-being.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Sequence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sequence. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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