one after another
idiom
1
: in a continuing series
The buses kept arriving, one after another.
One person after another walked out of the concert.
2
: each one in a continuing series
One after another of her friends got married and moved away.
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The banners appeared one after another — slowly, methodically, a manifesto of indignation unfurling beneath bleak Normandy skies.
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Jack Lang, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
But as the threats to women’s reproductive health have come out of Washington, one after another, Cecile Richards has had to be everywhere at once: traveling around the country to meet patients and making constant trips to Washington to educate, lobby, and harangue members of Congress.
—Jonathan Van Meter, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2025
The sleeve was also successfully used to deliver a virtual stroking sensation, by sequentially activating the pouches one after another.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
Scientists experimentally confirmed in 2020 that methane, among the simplest organic molecules, forms like this, as carbon and hydrogen land on the icy grains, one after another.
—Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
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Jack Lang, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
But as the threats to women’s reproductive health have come out of Washington, one after another, Cecile Richards has had to be everywhere at once: traveling around the country to meet patients and making constant trips to Washington to educate, lobby, and harangue members of Congress.
—Jonathan Van Meter, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2025
The sleeve was also successfully used to deliver a virtual stroking sensation, by sequentially activating the pouches one after another.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
Scientists experimentally confirmed in 2020 that methane, among the simplest organic molecules, forms like this, as carbon and hydrogen land on the icy grains, one after another.
—Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
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“One after another.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one%20after%20another. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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