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A statement from his wife and children sent to AFP said he had "succumbed to cancer this Friday, October 31".

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

Many of Monet’s artist friends, including James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent and Édouard Manet, had succumbed to La Serenissima’s seductive light and glittering water, but Monet seemed resistant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

Then his mother died, three years after his father had succumbed to COVID-19.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2025

One student didn’t realize his shoes had succumbed to the fire until recent basketball tryouts, Grant said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading malady of mold or damp.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath