as in consecutive
following one after another without others coming in between
made the honor roll for three successive school terms
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Recent Examples of successive
Moody’s Ratings stripped the U.S. government of its top credit rating Friday, citing successive governments’ failure to stop a rising tide of debt.
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Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
That said, successive municipal governments have had plenty of time to try to address the issues that have been identified over and over by the monitoring team, advocates and others.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
Overseas recruitment of social care workers will also end, a move that brings with it the threat of disruption to a sector that successive governments have tried and failed to modernize.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 12 May 2025
Remaining games: Manchester United (h), Nottingham Forest (a) Liam Twomey
Aston Villa
Last Saturday’s 1-0 victory at Bournemouth means Villa will be playing in Europe for a third successive season.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 16 May 2025
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Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
That said, successive municipal governments have had plenty of time to try to address the issues that have been identified over and over by the monitoring team, advocates and others.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
Overseas recruitment of social care workers will also end, a move that brings with it the threat of disruption to a sector that successive governments have tried and failed to modernize.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 12 May 2025
Remaining games: Manchester United (h), Nottingham Forest (a) Liam Twomey
Aston Villa
Last Saturday’s 1-0 victory at Bournemouth means Villa will be playing in Europe for a third successive season.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for successive
consecutive
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Bitcoin touched a record high above $111,000, and oil prices slid after Bloomberg said oil producing member countries, or OPEC+, are discussing a potential third consecutive oil production surge in July, with an output hike of 411,000 barrels a day among the options under consideration.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Seeman, who has pitched all 28 innings in Winter Springs’ past four postseason victories, doused the fire with three consecutive outs.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 May 2025
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“Successive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/successive. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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