Thesaurus results for SUCCESSOR

successor

noun

Definition of successor

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 Her successor, Dave Lewis, took the helm at the beginning of the year. — Ian King, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026 Netherlands international Maatsen has struggled for game-time since joining in July 2024, but Villa have outlined their intentions to keep the 24-year-old this summer and view him as a long-term successor to Digne. — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Vyshnegradsky’s successor, Sergei Witte, offers the counterpoint. — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 The Dalai Lama has said his successor could be born outside China and that only his office has the authority to recognize his reincarnation. — ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for successor

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Noun

That could mean returning replacement shares or paying their current value, including dividends and other distributions that would have accrued.

— Mark Lewyn, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2026
After losing one young defensive tackle for the season, the Miami Dolphins quickly got to work on finding a replacement.

— David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of replacement

Noun

Experts like Chen Gang, the deputy director and senior research fellow at NUS East Asian Institute, are positive that this momentum will lead to long-term gains for Chinese chipmakers.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Because of Micron’s corporate structure, the company needed to take the exemption two times, requiring it to pay on a maximum of $800 million in assessed value, according to Brad Smith, chief deputy at the Ada County Assessor’s Office.

— Mark Dee August 2, Idaho Statesman, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of deputy

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At Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, assistant music professor Benjamin Guerrero is co-teaching a class next year with a computer scientist.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Gainesville quickly lured Grayson’s coach, Santavious Bryant, a former Gainesville assistant, as Niblett’s replacement.

— Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of assistant

Noun

But during Thursday's meeting, representatives for the property owner and developer said the discussion over the mobile home park closing is separate from the annexation, rezoning and variances for the property.

— Emily McLeod, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
When a Van Leeuwen Ice Cream representative came to look at his space in the center of downtown Burbank in April, a senior city official was there to help woo the brand, said Kurt Kaufman of West Coast Investors, which owns the property.

— Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of representative

Noun

The governor now picks one of three finalists named by a nominating commission controlled by attorneys.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
The county attorney presented a plan to sue several big pharma companies for the deceptive marketing practices that triggered the opioid epidemic, following the pattern established by lawsuits filed against tobacco companies starting in the 1990s.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of attorney

Noun

Their dense texture makes oyster mushrooms a preferred meat substitute in many dishes.

— Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2026
Now that it's disappeared from store shelves, longtime devotees have launched a petition to bring it back, flooded social media with disappointment and searched for substitutes.

— Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of substitute

Noun

Hiring has cooled for entry-level software developers — work increasingly done by AI agents — and college enrollment in computer and information science programs has been declining.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Smaller teams of high-agency engineers and builders are managing fleets of agents rather than executing every task by hand.

— Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of agent

Noun

Like fainting, craving pickles, or struggling to wiggle into skinny jeans, vomiting, in the cultural imagination, is a stand-in for imminent motherhood, as legible as any pregnancy test.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026
Production on season 1 took place in Alberta with Bragg Creek working as a stand-in for Montana’s Glacier National Park and downtown Calgary subbing for New York City, per Calgary Herald.

— Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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