successors

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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

The only other names who have been talked about regularly as potential successors are Robbie Keane, at Ferencvaros, and Motherwell's Jens Berthel Askou.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

Fred Kaynor, a managing director at Schwab’s charitable arm, now called DAFgiving360, says its account holders can name up to 10 successors, and successors can name successors.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Plus, crucially, can this government and its successors, in their management of immigration and asylum, demonstrate the necessary fairness and control?

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

It got stronger as time went on, thanks to the investigations of Copernicus’s successors.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife