succeeds
- present tense form of succeed (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The former securities regulator and federal prosecutor succeeds Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned last month, and inherits an 18-agency intelligence community shaken by leadership turnover and staff cuts.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Yet “The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove” succeeds in extending a warm communal embrace to its audience, which is the ultimate aim of this mischievous and kind-hearted comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
She succeeds Margaret Anadu, a former Goldman Sachs partner who now runs a consulting firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
In remixing one of cinema’s most revered classics with singular comedic flair, Wain has made a contender for his best film that succeeds by tributing his own loony industry.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Even when technology succeeds in manufacturing a machine as big as Texas to do everything we recognize as human, it will still be, at best, a single individual.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
