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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

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

Chapelle has suc ceeded Dunton in her heedlessly wavering affections.

From Time Magazine Archive

He rolled up 4,444 hours of single-engine flying time before he moved on to become one of the authors of U.S. suc cess in heavy aerial bombardment during World War II.

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

Nothing could be said about the authority in this commissioning, whether it is primarily by virtue of apostolic suc- cession or by virtue of election by the pastor's contemporaries.

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

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

Recollection of the strange antics she had indulged in when passing through the trees, was suc- ceeded in the girl by a nettled palpitation, and that by a hot face.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

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