successively
Americanadverb
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Etymology
Origin of successively
First recorded in 1400–50; successive ( def. ) + -ly ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The Commerce Department usually publishes three sets of quarterly GDP, each successively more accurate, but Thursday’s update—the second—will serve as the final third-quarter pass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Most cases went 5 to 4 with majorities shifting successively on each side.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026
That success made Real the first team from any nation to lift the trophy three times successively in the Champions League era.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
Pumpkins have come a long way since then, as Indigenous American communities carefully adapted the wild pumpkin into successively bigger and better-tasting varieties.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2024
We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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