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as in series
a series of things, people, events, or actions arranged or happening one after another
He experienced a succession of car repairs that set him back thousands of dollars.
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as in descent
the order of people in a family
The prince is third in the line of succession to the throne.
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Recent Examples of succession
What To Know There has been a succession of sinkholes on the interstate, beginning with a 40-by-40-foot collapse in December, followed by smaller 11-by-11 foot collapse 75 feet away in February and another 15-by-15 foot sinkhole opened up in March.
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Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
In the event that all goes south, the Royal family is amping up succession plans.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 19 May 2025
The law dictates that the Counsellor of State position is held by the sovereign's spouse and the first four people in the line of succession over the age of 21, which is how Beatrice holds the royal role.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 14 May 2025
This season, Watson moved into the limelight with both goals in 2-1 home win against Stoke City in December, during a sequence of five starts in succession.
—Andy Naylor, New York Times, 13 May 2025
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Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
In the event that all goes south, the Royal family is amping up succession plans.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 19 May 2025
The law dictates that the Counsellor of State position is held by the sovereign's spouse and the first four people in the line of succession over the age of 21, which is how Beatrice holds the royal role.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 14 May 2025
This season, Watson moved into the limelight with both goals in 2-1 home win against Stoke City in December, during a sequence of five starts in succession.
—Andy Naylor, New York Times, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for succession
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Even Springbank—often held up as a kind of anti-brand—recently released the Countdown Collection: a highly limited series aimed squarely at collectors.—
Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Starting the weekend off is a new three-episode documentary series that'll hit for Six Feet Under fans.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
30 May 2025
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Sam Morelos On Their Filipino Heritage And All The Philippine Elements In Summer Of 69 Like Morelos, Abby Flores is of Filipino descent, but the character wasn’t originally written that way in the script.—
Regina Kim,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Afrikaners are White South Africans of Dutch descent who have lived in South Africa for four centuries.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
21 May 2025
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The police brought Mulcahy in for questioning about a string of rapes, similar to those of the Railway Killers, that had been taking place along the same canal paths.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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Keep putting him in trade rumors for second string centers.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
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Metadata management tools integrated into Big Data ecosystems provide data lineage tracing, enabling organizations to know precisely where data originates, how it’s transformed and who has accessed it.—
Shinoy Vengaramkode Bhaskaran,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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While both belong to the same species, the lineages have genetic differences.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 May 2025
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Yep, that’s the same hospital where Kate Middleton gave birth to her three kids—Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
20 May 2025
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Peppa Pig has a new sister, Evie Pig, and Mummy Pig is doing just fine after giving birth.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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American society and our relations with other societies are driven by the competition/conflict choice.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2025
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Insiders describe relations between her and brother Santo as tense and combative.—
Mattia Dognini,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Jan. 2025
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Buy Now: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil on Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble Great Black Hope, Rob Franklin (June 10) Poet Rob Franklin’s debut, Great Black Hope, is a coming-of-age whodunit about race, class, and addiction.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
22 May 2025
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According to the suit, Miller had also raised concerns about Spitzer’s handling of the D.A.’s office, including worries that Spitzer had violated the Racial Justice Act by bringing up questions of race while trying to determine whether or not to seek the death penalty against a Black defendant.—
Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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Zoologist Charles Davenport created the Cold Spring Harbor Eugenics Record Office in 1910 to pursue his interests in evolution, breeding and human heredity.—
Shoumita Dasgupta,
The Conversation,
13 Jan. 2025
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Newell comes by his activism through heredity.—
Debra Utacia Krol,
USA TODAY,
3 Dec. 2024
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“Succession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/succession. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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