succeeding
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Don’t bet on his arguments succeeding in court if Kalshi sues Wisconsin.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Fleet was elected MP for Bolsover in July 2024, succeeding Labour stalwart Dennis Skinner.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Rafael Márquez, a former FC Barcelona star and one of the greatest players in Mexican national team history, is succeeding Aguirre after serving as one of his assistant coaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
He said the market already grasped his approach and pointed to falling volatility, lower Treasury yields and expectations that inflation would decline over the coming year or two as early evidence his strategy is succeeding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Between 10,000 and 9000 B.C. the people living there may already have been residing year-round in villages, but they were still hunter-gatherers; crop cultivation began only in the succeeding millennium.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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