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  suc

  abbreviation

  successor.
• suc-
  suc-

  variant of sub- before c: succeed.

suc

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. successor.

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suc- ² American  

1. variant of sub- before c: succeed.

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Example Sentences

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suc suc-

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

From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2011

The ardor cooled after the suc cess of U.S. space explorations made it seem that America was first once more.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He made such a suc cess of the English mill at Manchester that he was eventually made a partner, in spite of his regrettable politics.

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

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

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

Senator James C. Couzens, progressive ex-Mayor of Detroit and suc- cessor to Mr. Newberry, declared in a public memorandum that demagogues throughout the country are magnifying the difficulties under which railways are operating.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

NOTE.—The euphonic variations suc-, suf-, sug-, sum-, sup-, result from assimilating the b of sub- to the initial letter of the root.

From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by William Swinton

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