Meaning & use
successive
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Following one after another without interruption.
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The team won five successive championships before finally losing.
Successive generations of the family have run the same bakery since 1920.
A note on using this word
Successive emphasizes an unbroken sequence, often used with numbers, as in 'three successive years.'
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