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suc

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. successor.


suc- 2 American  
  1. variant of sub- before c: succeed.


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This suc... oh, hang on, yes she is.

From The Guardian Feb. 9, 2011

If the company suc ceeds, it plans to introduce the engine in limited numbers in model year 1984.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were some indications, however, that realignment is at least a possibility, given a suc cessful Reagan second term.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most suc cessful, most notorious of all communist experiments was the Oneida Community, scene of the "world's one great experiment in human eugenics."

From Time Magazine Archive

In favour of the former hypothesis are such passages as the following: I., 4, 84: “May you suc prosper.”

From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank

Babylon and Nineveh and ancient Rome," cried he, "wallowed in the wealth of material prosperity, stood naked and unashamed in their perdition—and suc- cumbed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The back-to-back suc- cesses made the pair a force to be reckoned with and probably led the studio to let them produce and direct Aliens.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sank his whole fortune financing and building the plane that won the Schneider Cup from Italy in 1922, defended it suc- cessfully the next year.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I knew those two children were going to be rebellious if their old man was suc- cessful at something and they decided to do the same thing," he sighs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great seigniories of Germanie, by one suc- cedyng in gouernment, haue been permanent in that good- lie state.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde

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