successor
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Once heralded as Kane's successor, international ambitions may have to wait for the time being.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Koray Kavukcuoglu, Hassabis’ successor as head of DeepMind, will have the title of senior vice president rather than CEO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
And when the time comes, will his endorsement still be all-powerful when the party’s voters pick his successor?
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
That’s just about the kindest thing the congressman has had to say about his would-be successor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
In Moscow, Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, spoke with equal conviction about the advantages of communism and the Soviet system.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
His long stay abroad has also stoked talk of a post-Biya future and accelerated jockeying among would-be successors as questions over who might replace him persist.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Earlier, he told an Edinburgh Fringe event that leading Scottish Labour was the hardest job in British politics and urged his potential successors to avoid infighting.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
None of Graham’s aspiring successors will fill that role, but some may come closer to it than others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
One reason is that the annals of Congress are full of female successors who did exactly that, partly out of fidelity to their seats’ previous occupants.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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