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as in series
a series of things, people, events, or actions arranged or happening one after another
He experienced a succession of car repairs that set him back thousands of dollars.
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as in descent
the order of people in a family
The prince is third in the line of succession to the throne.
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Recent Examples of succession
By launching 52 additional flavors in such short succession, the company is riding the wave of how consumer brands sell in other industries.
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Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
As the day wore on and the water continued to rise, events happened in quick succession.
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Kansas City Public Library Staff,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
That means Notre Dame has set up a layered succession plan for Carr.
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Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
Neural pathways controlling core bodily functions — feeling in the limbs, movement and breathing — were collapsing one by one, like circuit breakers tripping in rapid succession.
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Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
30 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for succession
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
As the day wore on and the water continued to rise, events happened in quick succession.
—
Kansas City Public Library Staff,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
That means Notre Dame has set up a layered succession plan for Carr.
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Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
Neural pathways controlling core bodily functions — feeling in the limbs, movement and breathing — were collapsing one by one, like circuit breakers tripping in rapid succession.
—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
30 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for succession
Recent Examples of Synonyms for succession
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The Jackson County charges came after police accused Sanchez-Munoz in a series of shootings in Kansas City that left one man, Jeremy Keenan, dead and four others injured on June 16.
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The legal action is part of a broader series of disputes in the streaming industry over carriage rights, bundling requirements and pricing control.
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His mother was of European descent and his father was a Cantonese opera star who was on tour in the city, affording his son birthright citizenship.
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Stokesbury said the climber's descent was a long slide down the steep snow slope rather than a straight free fall, with the terrain gradually becoming less steep farther down the mountain.
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Previous versions of the FDA’s panel on drug compounding — the group that will meet next month — have voted against a string of peptide ingredients brought forward by compounding pharmacies, declaring all of them too risky to be offered to patients.
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Doyle allegedly pocketed most of the proceeds while feeding Matthiesen a string of false explanations about why payment had never arrived.
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Future investment must prioritize data infrastructure, as robust data lineage will be a key competitive moat for physical AI's advancement.
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And whereas Fischer described without judgment the family patterns, social customs, and religious lineage of his four groups, Reynolds contrasts his two on ideological and ultimately moral grounds.
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Back in Paris, Monson de Kansky gave birth to a second daughter and focused on teaching.
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In one study from the 1990s, a researcher observing seven squirrel-monkey births watched two of the babies get stuck; neither survived.
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Central to Burbank’s thesis was his belief that environment mattered as much, if not more, than heredity.
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Political figures within Iran criticized the idea of handing over the supreme leader’s title based on heredity and thereby creating a clerical version of the rule of the shah, who was toppled during the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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Emily Brontë’s telling of this narrative premise was, also, far ahead of its time, unadorned, stripped bare, always in immediate reach of the brutal facts of her characters’ relations and complications with each other.
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Runcie is sharply attuned to the vast uncomfortable grey areas of gender and power relations, navigating them with wry, revelatory observations that are devastatingly acute.
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“Succession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/succession. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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