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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

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

Chapelle has suc ceeded Dunton in her heedlessly wavering affections.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

"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

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

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

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

The great seigniories of Germanie, by one suc- cedyng in gouernment, haue been permanent in that good- lie state.

From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde

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