as in consecutive
following one after another without others coming in between
the new governor was soon facing several back-to-back crises
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as in together
in succession without others coming in between
the three movies in the series were filmed back-to-back so that the cast members wouldn't age visibly on screen
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Recent Examples of back-to-back
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
Perhaps driving them back-to-back would reveal no appreciable difference, but if the point was to imbue the C-HR with an eager quality, Toyota’s engineers succeeded at the task.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
23 June 2026
Chawinga, the back-to-back league MVP, has been a top on-field producer for the Current since arriving in 2024 as a relative unknown, despite gaudy statistics at Chinese club Wuhan Jianghan.
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Pj Green,
Kansas City Star,
22 June 2026
In the years since Hakimi has emerged as one of the most effective wingbacks in the world, having found tremendous success with PSG, including winning back-to-back Champions League titles in the 2024–25 and 2025–26 seasons.
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Tushaar Kuthiala,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
22 June 2026
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At 50-29, the reigning back-to-back World Series champions have the best record in the sport.
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Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
23 June 2026
Perhaps driving them back-to-back would reveal no appreciable difference, but if the point was to imbue the C-HR with an eager quality, Toyota’s engineers succeeded at the task.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
23 June 2026
Chawinga, the back-to-back league MVP, has been a top on-field producer for the Current since arriving in 2024 as a relative unknown, despite gaudy statistics at Chinese club Wuhan Jianghan.
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Pj Green,
Kansas City Star,
22 June 2026
In the years since Hakimi has emerged as one of the most effective wingbacks in the world, having found tremendous success with PSG, including winning back-to-back Champions League titles in the 2024–25 and 2025–26 seasons.
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Tushaar Kuthiala,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
22 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for back-to-back
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The pool did not open Saturday with the city's other outdoor pools after mechanical problems delayed the start of the season for the second consecutive year.
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The bank has missed revenue expectations for two consecutive quarters, helping to explain the stock's significant year-to-date underperformance.
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The 44-year-old singer's children, Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19, made a rare joint public appearance at Paris Men's Fashion Week after TMZ reported that the two would achieve a runway milestone together during the days-long sartorial event overseas.
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The hot dog itself has enough snap and flavor to stand on its own, but the chili brings it all together.
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Those concerns and fears crystalize in responses to Anthropic’s Mythos model and the successive rollout of Fable, where both of these models can be useful in allowing hackers to leverage agents swarms.
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His baptismal register does not name his father, but he was raised by two successive men.
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The status had previously been renewed successively and, despite the move to end these protections, the State Department warns against traveling to either Haiti or Syria, citing widespread violence, crime, terrorism, and kidnapping.
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Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira has the record number of World Cup appearances as a coach with six, but not successively.
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Arch’s sentences will run consecutively.
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The judge delivered sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for three counts of first-degree murder, and 25 years to life for each of the four other counts, second-degree murder, all to run consecutively.
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Trump has repeatedly maligned Haitian immigrants, including falsely accusing the Haitians who are living in Ohio of eating people's pets.
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That meant fewer shots on target and a lot more fouls with players crashing on the pitch repeatedly.
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