SUCCESSIVELY Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

successively

adverb

as in together

in succession without others coming in between as he moved up the corporate ladder, he ensconced his family in successively larger homes

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Recent Examples of successively The status had previously been renewed successively and, despite the move to end these protections, the State Department warns against traveling to either Haiti or Syria, citing widespread violence, crime, terrorism, and kidnapping. — Reuters, USA Today, 28 June 2026 Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira has the record number of World Cup appearances as a coach with six, but not successively. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 16 June 2026 Most recently, analysis of pollen trapped in the ship’s waterproofing layers have yielded insight into repairs made successively in other locations throughout the Adriatic Sea, according to a paper published in the journal Frontiers in Materials. — ArsTechnica, 2 May 2026 Thanks to the South's long growing season, many crops, such as beans, can be planted and harvested successively over a longer period of time. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026 Established in 1948, North Korea has been successively ruled by male members of the Kim family. — Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026 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 It was worn successively by Queen Hortense, Queen Marie-Amelie and Isabelle of Orleans, according to the Louvre. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2025

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Adverb

Locals have spotted groups of people in Korea jerseys huddled together, trying to decide what to order at In-N-Out.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
When the telephony and cognitive integration layers are designed to work together through a clean connective layer, the handoffs between domains stop being yours to debug.

— Ran Inbar, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of together

Adverb

Kyle Backhus hit two batters consecutively, forcing in a run and making it 8-4.

— CBS News, CBS News, 2 July 2026
In his sentencing decisions last week, O’Connor employed the terrorism enhancements to trigger mandatory minimum prison terms and ordered their sentences to be served consecutively.

— Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 1 July 2026

Definition of consecutively

Adverb

The justices, too, seemed eager to embrace electronic recording in cases where no court reporter is available and litigants cannot afford to pay for one on their own, repeatedly pressing lawyers on exactly how such a ruling might be written.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
County officials have repeatedly warned that fraudulent claims take money away from public services and shift the tax burden to honest taxpayers.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026

Definition of repeatedly

Adverb

Although the numbers on the chassis were divided into various unrelated intervals, the transmissions appeared to be numbered sequentially, as were the tank guns, heaters, road wheels and turret engines.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 July 2026
Wilde then shot the film sequentially—rare for small films and logistically impossible for larger ones—in just 21 days on a set designed to mimic a labyrinthian San Francisco apartment.

— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 26 June 2026

Definition of sequentially

Adverb

Scaling breakthrough propulsion Unlike conventional rocket engines that rely on subsonic combustion, Venus’ RDRE generates thrust through a continuously rotating supersonic detonation wave inside the combustion chamber.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026
Hitler fought on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 almost continuously.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of continuously

Adverb

The weapon of choice to keep the screwworm at bay is a plant in Pacora, Panama, that has been continually churning out sterile flies, which mate with wild female flies to halt reproduction.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
Team Priorities In today’s environment, priorities must be continually assessed and reset.

— Tony Gambill, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

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