succeed
Example Sentences
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If they succeed, participants would be barred from access to federally regulated event-contract markets.
Then the sudden nomination of Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Fed triggered a sharp dollar rally that sent gold sliding.
"The more inspirational women on TV who are showing their talents and succeeding, it'll feed down to the next generation," she said.
From BBC
While those efforts led to the signing of two separate agreements, neither has succeeded in halting the fighting on the ground.
From Barron's
But Mr. Belcher doesn’t succeed in making Coriolanus’ wariness of empty words a mark of his nobility of spirit—imperfect though it is.
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