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Recent Examples of consecutively Three of those presidents — Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe — served two terms consecutively, a pattern repeated only once: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025 The opposite is a surplus, something the government has had only four times in the last 50 years, consecutively between 1998 and 2001. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025 The judge sentenced him to the maximum on each of those 103 counts, to be served consecutively, said Jessica Rock, the state animal crimes resource prosecutor with the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 Feb. 2025 In the Tennessee cases, Mendenhall was sentenced to serve the two life terms consecutively, or one after the other. Phil Helsel, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for consecutively

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“Consecutively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consecutively. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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