All 5 Uses of
succession
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It was a succession of minutes, but it hit them as a single whole.
Chpt 1.8 *succession = series (one after another)
- It was this shape that the screams were now tearing away from him; he felt as if the ringing ceased to be sounds and became a succession of slashes hitting his skull.
Chpt 2.8
- She faced, with the same look of detachment, a succession of men who went in and out of her office with over hurried steps and hands fumbling in superfluous gestures.
Chpt 2.8
- They've had two bad years in succession, but they have a bumper crop this fall-and they have to be able to harvest it.
Chpt 3.5succession = a row (one after the other)
- In the next instant, he heard the dry crack of a gunshot, then three answering cracks in swift succession, like an angry hand slapping a sudden assailant.
Chpt 3.6succession = sequence (one after another)
Definitions:
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(1)
(succession as in: a succession of events) series or sequence (one after another)
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(2)
(succession as in: presidential line of succession) replacement -- especially someone to taking a job or position after another leaves it