succeeder

Definition of succeedernext

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Noun
  • New leader, same problems Just as Starmer inherited a lackluster economy, so too will his successor.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
  • Council members chose to open a public application to find her successor, and more than 110 people applied for the job.
    Mary Ramsey Updated June 22, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 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 claimants are asking for $10 million against each respondent and said their damages include medical care, psychological and counseling care and pain, suffering and mental anguish.
    Joshua Dougherty, Idaho Statesman, 22 June 2026
  • The dispute also crosses borders, with a British claimant based in Dubai, a German defendant based in France, companies incorporated in Dubai, business plans connected to England, Africa and the Gulf and an alleged repayment obligation that was meant to be settled in bitcoin.
    Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 19 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
  • Key Facts At least eight states, nearly all of which are led by Democratic governors, will not send representatives to the fair, according to multiple outlets.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 24 June 2026
  • Even if Arraez doesn’t earn the fan selection, the Giants are required to have at least one representative, who would be selected through the players vote and Commissioner’s Office.
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 23 June 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Berenberg chemicals analyst Sebastian Bray highlighted fish oil producers as a potential beneficiary.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 21 June 2026
  • Again, Argentina may have been the beneficiary of its icon taking a step down at club level.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 June 2026
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“Succeeder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/succeeder. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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