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successor

noun as in heir

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Irish President Michael D Higgins has congratulated his successor Catherine Connolly after her landslide election win.

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The interim government of her successor, Jose Jeri, has declared a state of emergency in place since Wednesday in Lima and its outskirts, and deployed soldiers in the streets.

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She offered her successor "congratulations and support" and vowed to remain a strong voice in Parliament.

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Just over four and a half months on from Russell Martin's first press conference as Rangers head coach, his successor Danny Rohl faced the media at Ibrox for the first time.

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His Democratic and Social Movement party -- successor of the Algerian Communist Party -- was banished in February 2023.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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