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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Adverb
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Harris also urged Americans to stand together amid chaos.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
2 May 2025 -
The joy of being together outweighed the legal and emotional complications.—
Carielle Escalante,
Mercury News,
1 May 2025
Adverb
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Seventeen people wrote letters that UG Clerk Monica Sparks read aloud consecutively, 17 people spoke in person, and two spoke on Zoom.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
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Those sentenced will be served consecutively and mean she could be released in eight years.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Moscow has repeatedly used hypersonic weapons against Ukraine, which the Kremlin has claimed are near-impossible to knock out of the sky.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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However, some users reported being repeatedly kicked out of the digital line.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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These agents can continuously oversee transactions and customer activities to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements.—
Craig Costigan,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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One proactive step is to consider personal data removal services, which specialize in continuously monitoring and removing your information from various online databases and websites.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Extending the sounds of different voices story after story ad infinitum, My First Time suggests that these individual moments of recognition embody a kind of collective trauma that is continually on repeat.—
Ivy G. Wilson,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
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Unlike staking tomatoes, which requires hands-on maintenance to continually tie the stem to the support, caging is nearly maintenance-free.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 May 2025
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“Successively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/successively. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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