Thesaurus results for SUCCESSORS

successors

noun

plural of successor

as in assistants

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 successors The threshold comes when a system can create a successor capable of creating successors of its own. — Regan Peng, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026 Neither Washington nor Beijing benefits from losing control of systems capable of autonomous replication, accelerating the development of their own successors, evading oversight, or enabling catastrophic biological or cyber harm. — Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026 Ayatollah Khomeini and his successors built proxy movements to spread their ideology across the Middle East. — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026 Many speculated he will be forced to eventually step down, with potential successors speculated as ranging from existing CFDA executives to former fashion directors of leading retailers and more. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026 The Giants have 2025 fifth-round pick Marcus Mbow and 2026 sixth-round pick JC Davis developing as potential successors to Eluemunor. — Dan Duggan, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 The public museum celebrates 19th-century jeweler and glassmaker René Lalique and his successors. — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026 The potential shifting of styles is no problem for Velasquez, who has danced under Cunningham and Binda and their successors Seiwert and Krutzkamp in her time in Sacramento. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026 The modern successors both measure 40 mm and feature a rotating bezel plus an outer city ring showing 24 destinations. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2026

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Noun

That led Broncos assistants Joe Lombardi and Pete Carmichael, two former Saints coaches, to quietly reach out to Brees.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
At the Stadium of Light on Saturday though, referee John Brooks was on his own, as his assistants were in no position to help.

— Graham Scott, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of assistants

Noun

McGuire also admitted to detonating the bomb in retaliation for various alleged government wrongs, including sheriff’s deputies seizing his firearms earlier that year.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Williamson County deputies have arrested a 26-year-old local man named Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu on murder and theft charges.

— Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of deputies

Noun

Call your federal and local representatives and ask them to support the above bills and prioritize legislation that funds research around perimenopause and menopause.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 17 Sep. 2026
CreativeFuture, the nonprofit advocating for creative copyright protections, was doing their own work, as were representatives from the TV Academy.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of representatives

Noun

Following the 2013 season — Joe Mauer’s final full year as a catcher before shifting to first base — the Twins have relied on a cavalcade of replacements, from Kurt Suzuki to Gary Sanchez to Ryan Jeffers to be their backstop.

— Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Over the summer, CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss blew up the storied institution by firing its executive producer and key correspondents and bringing in far less experienced replacements, including several right-leaning opinion journalists.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of replacements

Noun

Patel later suggested that the scope of firings had been overblown, saying many agents had retired on their own.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
Agents can call APIs, query databases, retrieve documents, invoke other models, generate files, trigger workflows, connect to SaaS platforms and even delegate work to other agents.

— Nicola Sfondrini, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of agents

Noun

Every election, the two major parties mobilize massive operations of attorneys, staffers and volunteers to monitor polling places and ballot counting.

— NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
Reasons for delays in judgments aren’t always clear to the public or the respective attorneys.

— Sam Blum, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of attorneys

Noun

This time, a half-dozen states are going before Super Tuesday and some of them have tons of delegates.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Iranian delegates said the postponement was at the request of Saudi Arabia, which has recently endured a new series of attacks from Yemen’s Houthis.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

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