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Respondents were asked to rate how important attributes such as attractiveness, kindness and supportiveness, financial security and successfulness, as well as education and intelligence were to them in their partner.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2023

Programs that appear to inflate bullying statistics, use fear messages to sell their product and make exaggerated claims of successfulness should particularly raise alarm bells for schools. 

From Time • Oct. 10, 2013

On this side, then, certainly the chief side, there could be no question about the successfulness of his life.

From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

And the circumstance of its prevailing successfulness in the country where he was placed, while it held him silent as if under a law, heaped stores of insurgency in the Celtic bosom.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

In less than a year she had married a youth of twenty, who apparently had not in him even the rudiments of worldly successfulness.

From Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Bennett, Arnold