series
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A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.