as in successively
in succession without others coming in between
objections will be dealt with seriatim
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Adverb
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Close to 40 years later, the quadruple toe loop has become normalized, appearing successively in more programs in each of the past four Games.—
Robert Samuels,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026 -
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
Adverb
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Unsurprisingly the two are already plotting more projects together.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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The logic behind this is that supermassive black hole binaries, which spiral together to lead to collisions and mergers, emit gravitational waves of increasing frequency as their orbits shrink, creating a background hum of gravitational waves.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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As strong as Dallas has been in its six-game win streak, the Stars have allowed opponents to climb back into games repeatedly in the third.—
Lia Assimakopoulos,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Kitty, whose worldly possessions fit into two plastic bags, is seen repeatedly in the same clothes, and bourgeois hostility to her presence in Beth’s middle-class neighborhood compounds her feelings of worthlessness.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Seriatim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seriatim. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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