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succeed

[suhk-seed] / səkˈsid /




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Romesh Ranganathan's dry humour and wry presenting style saw him succeed Anne Robinson as the host of The Weakest Link revival in 2021.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

And if Anthropic doesn’t succeed after all, Miljand said he and Tallinn will still have reason to celebrate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Xavier Becerra — the front-runner in the race to succeed Newsom as governor — had all urged Bonta to settle the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

News has made over the past few years to focus the rankings more on rewarding schools that help students succeed after college and less for the caliber of students they admit on the front end.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

It made Mr. Popper very nervous to see them shoving each other, as if at any moment they might succeed in pushing one over.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

He succeeds his former team-mate McCullum, who was sacked as Test coach earlier this summer, but remains as boss of the white-ball team.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

If it succeeds, GSK told investors that it plans to submit the vaccine to the FDA for an updated label in 2029 at the earliest.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

He succeeds Lynne Fitzpatrick, who was named CEO of CME Group earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Beyond shifting from a multi-cam comedy to single-cam and Brandy’s changed-up theme song, this “Different World” succeeds by maintaining a wonderfully familiar energy… like coming back home.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

“We’ve had more student transfers with insufficient records than you could imagine. We’re here to help you. And make sure that Fern succeeds in every possible way.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Like many neighbouring producers, his family estate Carussin has succeeded in moving upmarket thanks to the production of organic wines exported in particular to Scandinavia.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

“There was this whole museum movement to get away from a march through time, to a more episodic or specific sort of story,” John Gray, who succeeded Glass in 2012, told ProPublica.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

We’d succeeded in closing it with the same intentionality with which we opened it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The summit succeeded in delivering a joint declaration when divisions among members have rarely been so glaring.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The plan succeeded, and Garfield won his first political office.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Diageo DGE -0.34%decrease; red down pointing triangle named WPP WPP -0.94%decrease; red down pointing triangle finance chief Joanne Wilson as its next chief financial officer, succeeding Nik Jhangiani.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

German Gen. Carsten Breuer will take over as chair of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military committee from July, succeeding Italian Adm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Meanwhile, Conservative county councillor Lee Scott said: "We're not opposing it, but we are in the future looking at it to see if it's succeeding and making people feel safe."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Next described the decision as a "landmark victory" succeeding on the "key issue of basic pay".

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

You’ve been succeeding at that for a while now, so if it were really what you wanted, you’d be happy, too.”

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone




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