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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 lineages
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 successions
Plant additional successions of sunflowers every week or two to enjoy blooms later in the summer.
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Alexandra Jones,
The Spruce,
11 May 2026
Everyone—prospective leaders, the target company, the investors and the local community—can benefit from this approach, according to YMFG Capital, which has orchestrated 12 business successions so far.
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Japan Contributor,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
For authoritarian regimes, survival is uncertain, and never more so than during inescapable successions.
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Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
Alexandra Jones,
The Spruce,
11 May 2026
Everyone—prospective leaders, the target company, the investors and the local community—can benefit from this approach, according to YMFG Capital, which has orchestrated 12 business successions so far.
—
Japan Contributor,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
For authoritarian regimes, survival is uncertain, and never more so than during inescapable successions.
—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for successions
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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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Because everyone will have access to the same information, AI will accentuate the value of personal connections, again promoting lineages and networks that at their most extreme may appear to be sinister establishment conspiracies.
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Here, however, entire evolutionary lineages may be emerging across archipelagos separated by distances that seem relatively minor on a map.
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Nadal also uses the Western grip, which sends the racket strings from low to high while practically facing downward.
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The halterneck bikini style was also held in place with bright yellow strings.
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The route includes some short ascents and descents and takes place on a variety of paths, including pavement, loose gravel, and forest trails.
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During certain portions of the race, competitors are forced to scramble on all fours while navigating steep inclines and narrow descents.
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Speaking of that last vampire subject, this is also a great episode for Jacob Anderson in the B-plot, as Louis plays the reluctant avenger doing that loveable scoundrel Raglan James’s dirty work in two stand-out action sequences.
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Likewise, despite the filmmakers’ best efforts, there’s still a few uncanny valleys to be crossed, notably in the up-close, full-body fighting sequences, which remind us how much VFX isn’t quite there yet.
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The average person named Janice today is around age 69, the site adds; the single highest number of births being 1951, with 15,982 babies.
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Anniversaries, births, career promotions and other major life events often inspire additions to a stack, turning it into a visual timeline of the wearer’s life.
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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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Danielle Cendejas, a political strategist with experience helping politicians with Bay Area races, told this news organization that both Wahab and Hernandez will have to sharpen their communication with voters through the next two elections.
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Democratic socialist candidates won key races in New York, while more establishment candidates prevailed in other contests.
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“Successions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/successions. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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