Back-to-back
Back-to-back adjective - Following one after another without others coming in between.
Usage example: the new governor was soon facing several back-to-back crises
Later and back-to-back are semantically related. in time topic. In some cases you can use "Later" instead an adjective phrase "Back-to-back".
Later
Later adjective - Being, occurring, or carried out at a time after something else.
Back-to-back and later are semantically related. You can use "Back-to-back" instead an adjective "Later".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- following and back-to-back
- following and later
- consequent and back-to-back
- consequent and later
- advanced and back-to-back
- advanced and later
- subsequently and back-to-back
- subsequently and later
- after and back-to-back
- after and later
- next and back-to-back
- next and later
- subsequent and back-to-back
- subsequent and later
Both words in one sentence
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Three years later in Survivor's Quest, they were married and went back-to-back while linking minds in order to strike at the exact same instant to cut both wires in an elevator of death.
Source: Back-to-Back Badasses -
It and Dreams of Steel are the only novels that take place back-to-back without a Time Skip in between (though Bleak Seasons initially looks concurrent with Dreams of Steel, it's shortly revealed to actually be taking place roughly four years later).
Source: Literature / The Black Company -
The Rock later used this as partial reasoning for turning heel the next year where he defeated both Hogan AND Austin in back-to-back PPV's.
Source: Fallen Hero
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