successively

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Recent Examples of successively Samsung has successively shaved a few millimeters off every year, taking a leap last year with the Z Fold 7. ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026 Like rock-paper-scissors, each generation of warfare emerges by successively absorbing and controlling the decisive element that came before it. Will Cady, SPIN, 30 July 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for successively
Adverb
  • Cloverleaf plans to use NVIDIA’s DSX platform to evaluate site, power, cooling, computing and facility requirements together earlier in the design process.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The two ships stayed together for a week in a ship-to-ship oil transfer.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • The mandatory minimum sentence for armed criminal action is three years in prison, to run consecutively to the murder charge, Johnson said.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Hemphill faces 27 years to life, plus another 10 years to be served consecutively to his current 60-years-to-life sentence, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
    Bay City News, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Combs has repeatedly denied any involvement in Shakur’s killing and has never been named by investigators as a suspect or even a person of interest in the case.
    Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Wildberries’ warehouses have been repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian drones in recent months.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Partner carrier Hapag-Lloyd tallied the second quarter cash impacts of the Hormuz disruption at roughly $600 million, with average bunker consumption price increasing sequentially from $485 per metric ton in Q1 to $700 per metric ton in Q2.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The platform deploys an engine of specialized, multi-agent AI systems that analyze land, power availability, fiber connections, and local zoning laws simultaneously rather than sequentially.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Cheap inference also creates elasticity, since agents that can afford to run continuously consume far more.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • This is a sophisticated, adaptive, three-chamber air suspension system that continuously adjusts to road topography and driving style.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • The fund is continually at work mobilizing $100 million for organizations increasing that access to youth mental health services and education globally.
    Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Solving problems now depended on a system of testing and learning in which solutions were continually tried out in the real world and adapted accordingly.
    Jennifer Pahlka, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • The project has been serially delayed, out of money, rebranded and trailed by angry former business partners.
    Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 9 June 2026
  • Since roughly 2021, consumer sentiment has serially underperformed what the underlying data would predict.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026

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“Successively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/successively. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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