Sample Sentences forsuccessor (editor-reviewed)
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He was President Lincoln's successor.successor = replacement (in this case, the next President of the United States)
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The manager is nearing retirement, so they are searching for a successor.successor = replacement
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He tells her that two years earlier he'd married Cady's successor, (source)successor = replacement (person who fulfilled the role previously filled by another person)
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You tried to train a successor and it failed. (source)successor = replacement
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We shall all miss your—er—highly individual way of running things, Albus, and only hope that your successor will manage to prevent any—ah—"killin's". (source)
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Chris, she confesses, used to poke fun at her capitalist zeal by calling her the duchess of York, Ivana Trump McCandless, and "a rising successor to Leona Helmsley." (source)successor = replacement (person to fulfill the role previously filled by another person)
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[the seventh mayor] ...before he could return the box to its official hiding place or tell his successor about it, he died. (source)successor = replacement
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A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. (source)successors = replacements (people who fulfill their roles in the future)
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Mr. Brown's successor was the Reverend James Smith, and he was a different kind of man. (source)successor = replacement
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He and his successors actually held the Parliamentary chair of Primus Baro Angiae. (source)successors = replacements (people who later fulfilled the role he filled)
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The story as I've heard it is that Camille took an indefinite leave of absence from heading up the clan about a year ago and made Raphael her temporary successor. (source)successor = replacement
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Their successors were both southerners named Johnson who had served in the Senate.† (source)
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What does it mean, though, to become a worthy successor in an unworthy enterprise? (source)successor = replacement (person to fulfill the role previously filled by another person)
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None of them was written by Peregrin, but he and his successors collected many manuscripts written by scribes of Gondor: mainly copies or summaries of histories or legends relating to Elendil and his heirs.† (source)
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Griffs emergence as the baddest brother on campus made him Axel's natural successor.† (source)
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He was the first of the great philosophers to be born in Athens, and both he and his two successors lived and worked there.† (source)
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