as in sequence
a series of things linked together
a catenation of missteps and miscalculations that ultimately grew into a colossal blunder
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When Whisenhunt returned for his second inning of work, the 25-year-old had a sequence to scrap from memory.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2026 -
Power and grace in every step sequence and triple-lutz, triple-loop combination.—
Katie Gunderman,
SELF,
26 Feb. 2026
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The chain of events triggered by the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel by Hamas shattered the image of Iran as an impenetrable and defiant regional power.—
Abbas Al Lawati,
CNN Money,
1 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation, typically reserved for companies in adversary nations, means that defense contractors could be barred from deploying Anthropic's AI as part of work for the Pentagon.—
Andrea Shalal,
USA Today,
28 Feb. 2026
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Lieber added the railroad has been using work trains to clear snow on the LIRR, as well as running empty trains to keep the tracks clear of ice.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
23 Feb. 2026
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But Marcel, his older brother, and their cousin, Georges Loinger, posed as Boy Scout leaders taking their troops camping, then chaperoned their charges through perilous train journeys and hiked with them through the Alps to Switzerland.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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In Southern California, the fervor around Pokémon cards has led to strings of break-ins in recent months at trading card stores that have amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars of losses and even some collectors robbed at gunpoint.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2026
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The electronics lilt through the arrangements like a string of dim lights draped above a roaring fireplace.—
Dean Van Nguyen,
Pitchfork,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Catenation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catenation. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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