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 Jordi Faulí, the chief architect currently overseeing the works, said Gaudí equipped his successors with a design logic which has been helped by the use of digital modelling software, 3D printing and industrial robots. —

Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 10 June 2026 Taken far enough, and with enough compute, the blog post said such an approach could lead to recursive self-improvement—an AI system capable of autonomously designing, building, and improving its own successors. —

Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 9 June 2026 Champ, an elderly dog who died just months after moving in, and his young successors, Major and Commander, who were, to put it succinctly, biters. —

Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 9 June 2026 For decades, West Africa’s largest secondhand market had thrived on the global North’s castoffs, yet a growing deluge of fast fashion and its ultra-fast successors had turned Accra into the world’s clothing graveyard. —

Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026 While first ladies and presidents have previously shared private moments with their successors and predecessors in spite of political animosity, Jill wrote in the second-to-last chapter of A View from the East Wing that Melania and her had spent very little time together over the years. —

Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026 This means identifying possible successors early and exposing them to critical challenges to accelerate their preparation. —

Susana Sierra, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 An ordinance advanced in January that would give Snelling and his successors the power to declare a teen curfew anytime, anywhere across the city with at least 12 hours notice. —

Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026 But Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, unlike its successors in the soap world, would not cower in the face of such agitation, and was all the better for it. —

Literary Hub, 18 May 2026

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Noun

This includes value from free or low-cost digital goods such as internet search, social media, and AI assistants.

— James Broughel, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
People don’t see the work that NHL assistants do beyond the practices and games.

— Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 5 June 2026