successors

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This outlook suggests that, like Powell, the new Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh, and his successors will face unprecedented external shocks.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

The only question that matters in government is whether we leave our successors a better situation than we inherited.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

No wonder Warren Buffett wrote in a 2007 letter to shareholders that a “farsighted capitalist” at Kitty Hawk would have done successors a favor by “shooting Orville down.”

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

His recent successors failed to learn the lessons of the great reformist mayoralty of the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Robert Schumann and his friend Felix Mendelssohn were German successors to Beethoven of a gentler mould.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall