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Recent Examples of serially
Here’s what the serially successful executive coach and popular children’s author has to say about fear, both in the C-suite and on the home front.
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Maria Williams, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
The only other nations serially producing fifth-generation fighters are the US, with its F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor, and China, with its Chengdu J-20 and Shenyang J-35.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
Iraq became proof that the model would work across the region, with Hezbollah serially midwifing the proxies that Iran sired.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Approximately 98 percent of cropland in the territory is damaged or inaccessible — decimating the agriculture sector and local food production — and nine of ten people have been serially displaced from their homes.
—Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Maria Williams, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
The only other nations serially producing fifth-generation fighters are the US, with its F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor, and China, with its Chengdu J-20 and Shenyang J-35.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
Iraq became proof that the model would work across the region, with Hezbollah serially midwifing the proxies that Iran sired.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Approximately 98 percent of cropland in the territory is damaged or inaccessible — decimating the agriculture sector and local food production — and nine of ten people have been serially displaced from their homes.
—Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for serially
Adverb
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The company's datacenter business grew 64%, sequentially.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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In practice, the hand can grasp objects from both sides, detach to reach distant targets, collect multiple items sequentially, and securely reattach to its base.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Not many entertainment studios can say they’re successively owned by a media company, a dialup power player, a media company again, a telecom megalith, a cable giant and a software scion.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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It was worn successively by Queen Hortense, Queen Marie-Amelie and Isabelle of Orleans, according to the Louvre.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, to be served consecutively with his New York sentence.—
Katherine Lam,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 2026
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No one has ever beaten Sinner and Alcaraz consecutively at a major.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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The officer in the tan beanie repeatedly hits Pretti in the head with the pepper spray canister.—
Yahya Abou-Ghazala,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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Trump has criticized Powell repeatedly during his first year back in the White House ‒ threatening to try to fire him from the board of the independent agency ‒ for refusing to lower interest rates.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Serially.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serially. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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