succeed
verb (used without object)
to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result.
am succeeding
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present progressiveof succeed (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“Whether I am succeeding or not, I’m actually trying to unwrite an Americanness,” Yuknavitch says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2022
She has talked down to me as if I’m a child, even though I own my own home and am succeeding in my career.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2017
He said, I am succeeding, look at me.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
If I am succeeding at one, I am inevitably failing at the other.
From Time ● Jun. 9, 2014
I am succeeding, but you see and you know on what conditions.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas
