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
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
4 July 2026
Argentina is attempting to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to win back-to-back World Cups.
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Miami Herald,
4 July 2026
His frustration is echoed across La Guaira, the coastal state hit hardest by the back-to-back earthquakes on June 24.
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Tibisay Zea,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 July 2026
Your request for back-to-back weeks off at the last minute is unreasonable.
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Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
3 July 2026
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Adjective
Hurricanes Helene and Milton (2024) The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season produced two back-to-back hurricanes that caused considerably damage in the Southeast.
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Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
4 July 2026
Argentina is attempting to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to win back-to-back World Cups.
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Miami Herald,
4 July 2026
His frustration is echoed across La Guaira, the coastal state hit hardest by the back-to-back earthquakes on June 24.
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Tibisay Zea,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 July 2026
Your request for back-to-back weeks off at the last minute is unreasonable.
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Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
3 July 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for back-to-back
Adjective
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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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As thousands sing, clap and chant together, attendees describe a feeling of bliss and belonging, a chance to step outside the pressures of work, studies and an increasingly competitive society.
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Guests also visited a memory table filled with photos of Love and her father together, along with some of his favorite things, including a football, weights and his scriptures.
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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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Kyle Backhus hit two batters consecutively, forcing in a run and making it 8-4.
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In his sentencing decisions last week, O’Connor employed the terrorism enhancements to trigger mandatory minimum prison terms and ordered their sentences to be served consecutively.
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The justices, too, seemed eager to embrace electronic recording in cases where no court reporter is available and litigants cannot afford to pay for one on their own, repeatedly pressing lawyers on exactly how such a ruling might be written.
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County officials have repeatedly warned that fraudulent claims take money away from public services and shift the tax burden to honest taxpayers.
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“Back-to-back.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/back-to-back. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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