succession
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Still, as the top Cabinet official in the presidential line of succession after the VP, secretaries of state are often ambitious pols who bring baggage all their own.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
With these patterns occurring so close in succession, the risk/reward scenario for a long entry here makes sense.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
While Sweeney said that succession planning for the head coach role continued as normal, just as it did for his own role and that of other executives, he would not be drawn on specifics.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Hagen blew three short blasts in quick succession, the signal that would send the ironbom back to their ships.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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