Thesaurus results for SUCCESSOR

successor

noun

as in replacement

a person who has a job, position, or title after someone else; someone who succeeds another person The CEO's successor used to be the vice president here. the successor to the throne

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Recent Examples of successor After Smith was lynched in 1844, his successor, Brigham Young, decided to lead Latter-day Saints outside the country’s borders into present-day Utah, which was then northern Mexico. —

Benjamin Park, The Conversation, 1 June 2026 Patel, then the National Security Council's senior director for counterterrorism, and Roger Carstens, O'Brien's successor as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs. —

Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 1 June 2026 The system was specifically developed as a higher-voltage, higher-output successor to the AG9140 generator used on earlier destroyers. —

Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026 Her successor will be chosen on the November ballot. —

Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for successor

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Noun

Katz-Mayfield came up with the idea for the startup based on his frustration with the status quo of buying $20 replacement razor blades.

— Amelia Lucas,Melissa Repko, CNBC, 7 June 2026
The replacement rate drops to 32% for incomes between $1,286 and $7,749, and to 15% for incomes above $7,749.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 7 June 2026