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succeeder

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Definition of succeeder

as in successor

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As part of an agreement between Goldstein and government leaders, the museum’s founding director will no longer participate in the selection of his successor, leading up to Kanal’s opening.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
In a personalist system, leadership prizes loyalty, China expert Minxin Pei told The Beijing Brief podcast, with the consequence that strong figures — potential successors — tend to get weeded out.

— Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of successor

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Young and middle-aged inheritors are more digitally savvy and activism-oriented than older generations.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
The hope behind the request was that the proud inheritor of the Byzantine empire could escape its associations with a pretty derpy American bird.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

Definition of inheritor

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The trustees feared that if something happened to him, his heir apparent, Robert Kahn, would replace him, and it was known that Kahn had Zionistic inclinations.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
That Apple is the heir apparent to NBC’s comedy legacy is admittedly surprising.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of heir apparent

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The precise details of what happened there are obscure, and representatives for Beck did not respond to my requests for comment.

— Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
The field representative, Ho Yin Mo, was a young member of Stefani’s team who previously worked as a TV reporter in the Bay Area before entering politics.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026

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Kahn’s heirs unloaded the place in 1939, a few years after his death, and it was chopped up over the years to serve as retirement housing for city workers, a military training compound, and a boarding school, per Forbes.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2026
But a first-of-its-kind study of hundreds of contested trust cases offers a rare look at the circumstances that can send heirs to court.

— Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of heir

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The old immigrants are likely to remain—in the manner of the occasional Wasp legatee (Wagner, Lindsay) who poked in during the buoyant sixties—more visitors to wars over civic power than victors in them.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.

— David Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024

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