succession
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Blogs and entire media networks shuttered in rapid succession.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
The winter of 2015 and 2016, which coincided with a very strong El Niño, brought a succession of major storms delivering what experts at the time described as the most extreme flooding on record.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The payments company said Tuesday that Neglén, who has served as CFO for six years, will remain in the role through the planned succession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The stock market’s succession of calendar-year gains and losses is not completely identical to a series of coin flips, of course.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Stands of prehistoric trees rise and fall and rise again in succession.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Nearly 90% of CEO successions in the S&P 500 were planned last year, according to data from the Conference Board and ESGAUGE.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2025
The timing of deliberations, which has not been previously reported, shines fresh light on the status of one the most closely watched CEO successions on Wall Street.
From Reuters ● Jun. 29, 2023
This year, there will be lots more successions to work into the seed-sowing calendar, including lettuce.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
On that day, every cell in your body stretched and compressed in four quick successions, as did the atoms of everything else on Earth and in our solar system.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2022
Somewhere there was an actual arsenal, but it was closed off behind successions of sealed mesarthium doors, and anyway, Minya thought knives appropriate tools for butchery.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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