Successive
adjective
Happening or coming one after the other without a break.
Their team has had three successive wins this season.
Often appears as...
- successive victories
- successive generations
adjective
Happening or coming one after the other without a break.
Their team has had three successive wins this season.
Often appears as...
- successive victories
- successive generations
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Chronological Order
Use 'successive' to indicate items or events follow each other in time.
She won successive rounds in the spelling bee.
Pro Tip 2/3No Interruption
'Successive' implies there are no gaps or interruptions between events or items.
The detective investigated successive clues found at the scene.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasizing Repetition
Use 'successive' to emphasize repetition, especially in the case of remarkable achievements or failures.
The athlete broke the world record at two successive Olympic games.
Pro Tip 1/3Chronological Order
Use 'successive' to indicate items or events follow each other in time.
She won successive rounds in the spelling bee.
Pro Tip 2/3No Interruption
'Successive' implies there are no gaps or interruptions between events or items.
The detective investigated successive clues found at the scene.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasizing Repetition
Use 'successive' to emphasize repetition, especially in the case of remarkable achievements or failures.
The athlete broke the world record at two successive Olympic games.
Pro Tip 1/3Chronological Order
Use 'successive' to indicate items or events follow each other in time.
She won successive rounds in the spelling bee.
Pro Tip 2/3No Interruption
'Successive' implies there are no gaps or interruptions between events or items.
The detective investigated successive clues found at the scene.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasizing Repetition
Use 'successive' to emphasize repetition, especially in the case of remarkable achievements or failures.
The athlete broke the world record at two successive Olympic games.
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Self-Assembling Robots...
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Carne Ross: An...
and advised the Kosovo government. Independent Diplomat ended up advising three successive Kosovo prime ministers and the multi-party negotiation team of Kosovo. And Kosovo became independent. Independent Diplomat is now established in five diplomatic centers around the world,
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There's no such thing as...
It was street theater, open-air debates, fasting and feasting and toasting, parades and bonfires. During the 19th century, immigrants and urban political machines helped fuel this culture of voting. That culture grew with each successive wave of new voters.
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The sonic boom problem -...
with the sound traveling along rays perpendicular to these waves. Now imagine a moving sound source, such as a train whistle. As the source keeps moving in a certain direction, the successive waves in front of it will become bunched closer together.
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Shukla Bose: Teaching...
We've got the best school award for three years successively. And our children are coming back home with bags full of medals, with lots of admirers and friends. Last year there were a couple of kids from elite schools that came
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Likewise, for an action to speed up, or accelerate, each successive change must be greater. Let's change the mechanical spacing of our animated bounce to reflect what we observed in the footage.
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Saving Bumblebees Became...
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Toxic Waste in the...
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Demolition, disease, and...
Instead of cutting the mountain down to sea level, they would raise the sea up the mountain. The plan was to build massive steel gates separating the canal into multiple chambers with different water levels. As a ship passed through each successive gate would open, lowering the water level in the next chamber,
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Self-Assembling Robots...
but occasionally also exhibits some new ones. And by repeating the cycle of selection and reproduction over and over again, we hope that we can breed successive generations of robots where, just like is often observed in biological evolution, each generation gets better than the last,
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Carne Ross: An...
and advised the Kosovo government. Independent Diplomat ended up advising three successive Kosovo prime ministers and the multi-party negotiation team of Kosovo. And Kosovo became independent. Independent Diplomat is now established in five diplomatic centers around the world,
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What can cancer...
others but people like me actually continue to break new ground just by reaching successive birthdays well what happens to people like me after we largely stop taking medications our hospital visits become less frequent or even stopped altogether and we start to
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There's no such thing as...
It was street theater, open-air debates, fasting and feasting and toasting, parades and bonfires. During the 19th century, immigrants and urban political machines helped fuel this culture of voting. That culture grew with each successive wave of new voters.
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The sonic boom problem -...
with the sound traveling along rays perpendicular to these waves. Now imagine a moving sound source, such as a train whistle. As the source keeps moving in a certain direction, the successive waves in front of it will become bunched closer together.
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Shukla Bose: Teaching...
We've got the best school award for three years successively. And our children are coming back home with bags full of medals, with lots of admirers and friends. Last year there were a couple of kids from elite schools that came
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Animation basics: The...
Likewise, for an action to speed up, or accelerate, each successive change must be greater. Let's change the mechanical spacing of our animated bounce to reflect what we observed in the footage.
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Saving Bumblebees Became...
here the rusty patch bumblebee really is an amazing little animal Leopold said our ability to perceive quality in nature begin as an art with the pretty it expands through successive stages of
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Toxic Waste in the...
times permissible levels for bathing the Ganges and other Indian rivers are horrific ly polluted and successive Indian governments have failed to clean them up
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish Painter
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
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Mario Monti
Italian Public Servant
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
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Elie Ducommun
Swiss Activist
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
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Mary Baker Eddy
American Theologian
Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.
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Ricky Williams
American Football Player
The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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Wietse Venema
Dutch Scientist
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
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Peter Orszag
American Economist
Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.
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Cafu
To be the first player in the world to take part in three successive World Cup finals is very important.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish Painter
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
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Mario Monti
Italian Public Servant
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
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Elie Ducommun
Swiss Activist
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
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Mary Baker Eddy
American Theologian
Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.
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Ricky Williams
American Football Player
The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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Wietse Venema
Dutch Scientist
At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
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Peter Orszag
American Economist
Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.
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Cafu
To be the first player in the world to take part in three successive World Cup finals is very important.
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