succeeded

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In “Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World,” he speaks for the ordinary people of the past in their concrete reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Succeeded Smith as captain and was the first Liverpool skipper to lift the European Cup.

From BBC • May 24, 2022

February 2006: Succeeded Tom DeLay as majority leader, the House’s No. 2 Republican, when DeLay was indicted on improper fundraising charges and stepped aside.

From Washington Times • Sep. 26, 2015

From Hamsters to Wizards, Weirdness That Succeeded THE advertising business is like a proverbial three-legged stool, supported by agencies, the media and marketers.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2012

“O, happiness, deceitful in thy dream,” Though wreaths all blooming hang upon thy brow, And quick dissolves the visionary gleam, Succeeded soon by various scenes of wo.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton