rapid succession
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrapidandsuccession
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rapid
adjective
uk/ˈræp.ɪd/us/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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succession
noun
uk/səkˈseʃ.ən/us/səkˈseʃ.ən/
a number of similar events or people that happen, exist, etc. after ...
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(Definition ofrapidandsuccessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These shocks occurred inrapidsuccession(1883-1901).
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In historical terms, acquiescence and apotheosis happened inrapidsuccessionbut not simultaneously.
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The experimenter modeled a given gesture a total of 3 times inrapidsuccessionfor about 5 s each time.
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Unlike translation production, in translation recognition task words in both languages are presented inrapidsuccession.
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Many mothers were debilitated by arapidsuccessionof pregnancies.
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Reading them inrapidsuccessionencourages comparisons, while comparisons reveal agreements, contradictions and omissions.
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Prior to the 1860s, an assortment of other papers appeared and disappeared inrapidsuccession.
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Each beetle antennal preparation (see below) could thus be tested inrapidsuccessionwith the different treatments.
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Several such two-dimensional images of the concentration field are obtained inrapidsuccessionby sweeping the laser sheet through the flow field.
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It can be shown that arapidsuccessionof period-doubling bifurcations occurs as c is increased further, leading ## to a chaotic interior attractor.
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In this paradigm, two stimuli are presented to subjects inrapidsuccessionand the subjects make separate speeded responses to each stimulus.
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In addition, there are instances when the new evidence may be introduced into the public domain inrapidsuccession.
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So it's that much more powerful when the phrase comes round again, and they don't just nail it, but they do it five times in suddenlyrapidsuccession.
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According to this hypothesis, category boundaries for voicing are a natural consequence of the way in which specific groups of auditory neurons respond to events occurring inrapidsuccession.
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Suppose that a subject is presented with a red light, a spoken word, a picture, and a tone inrapidsuccession.
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Related and unrelated word pairs were presented visually, inrapidsuccession, within auditory sentence contexts that were either compatible or incompatible with the target (the second word in each pair).
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All others enter inrapidsuccession.
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For one thing, a 'mix' commonly takes the form of a sonic montage: abruptly juxtaposed musical styles heard inrapidsuccessionthat project only a weak sense of overarching form.
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