successively
adverb/səkˈsɛsɪvli/
Frequency rank: #12,835 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
one after another in order, without interruption.
Example sentence
The teacher called on each student successively, moving from one desk to the next.
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