succession
Example Sentences
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More companies chose a board member to run things day-to-day last year, usually a stopgap move that suggests succession hadn’t gone as planned, Spencer Stuart said.
Maskell said Andrew should also be stripped of his succession rights to the throne, as well as a councillor of state.
From BBC
She’s encouraged her father to have more serious conversations about succession planning.
They are filmmakers, each of whom has directed, in succession, the biggest box-office moneymaker of all time.
The team that spent its first four decades of existence as a punch line and a purgatory has now had 14 consecutive winning seasons with a succession of basketball greats wearing its uniform.
From Los Angeles Times
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