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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

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

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

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

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

Some of the older concerns have been suc- cessful, but of the whole number of existing companies at least one-half, judging from the price of their shares, have been failures.

From Everybody's Guide to Money Matters: with a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein by William Cotton

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