succeeder

Definition of succeedernext

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Noun
  • The government has increasingly squeezed freedoms under his successor, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who was reelected to a second term in 2024.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • Most notably, Lucid Chief Financial Officer Taoufiq Boussaid will leave the company after a handover to his successor, Alexander De Bock, who most recently served as CFO of automotive supplier TI Automotive.
    Michael Wayland, CNBC, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • The former One Direction star's son Bear, 9, is the sole inheritor of $29,007,998 from the singer's estate.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • Among these delusions is the perennial faith that Iranians are potentially ardent converts to American-style freedom, rather than inheritors of an ancient civilization with a trajectory outlined by its own specific history.
    Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • The settlement extends benefits to unidentified third-party claimants who were never parties to the initial lawsuit.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Publicly available data shows that wrongful death settlements for motor vehicle accidents in Texas vary widely, which is exactly why identifying the correct legal claimants early in the process matters so much.
    William Jones, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • An heir apparent to Draymond Green.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
  • Ryan Coogler, especially after the success of Sinners, feels like the most likely heir apparent.
    Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Swift's representative confirmed that the actor-comedian officiated the July 3 ceremony at Madison Square Garden.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Some states chose not to send representatives; several of them cited disagreements with the partisan mission.
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Lander has argued Goldman, the multimillionaire heir to the Levi jeans fortune, embodies establishment, corporate interests that corrupt the Democratic Party.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • Scholars largely agree that one wealthy Delft couple, the brewing heir Pieter Claesz van Ruijven and his wife, Maria de Knuijt, were his primary patrons.
    Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Another beneficiary of lower fuel prices and cooling Middle East tensions.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • The fees per person would start at $325 a year for companies with 50 to 249 Medicaid beneficiaries and top out at $725 annually for employers with at least 500 recipients.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
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“Succeeder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/succeeder. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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