successes

NOUN

favorable outcome

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accomplishment achievement advance benefit boom fame gain happiness profit progress prosperity realization triumph victory win

STRONG

arrival ascendancy attainment clover consummation eminence fortune fruition hit killing laugher maturation reward savvy sensation snap strike successfulness walkaway walkover

WEAK

bed of roses big hit do well easy street flying colors good luck good times grand slam gravy train happy days lap of luxury éclat

Antonyms

STRONGEST

defeat failure forfeit loss misfortune sadness sorrow unhappiness

STRONG

inferiority unfulfillment

Example Sentences

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Recent successes have also flipped the narrative on Tehran’s investment in the axis and its effectiveness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Pavlovich said the AI effort has yielded some successes and valuable lessons, but that the ROI conversation still faces many unanswered questions that Albertsons, as well as other companies, is tackling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

China's Tianwen-1 mission already landed a rover named Zhurong on the surface of Mars in 2021, in one of the most spectacular successes of Beijing's space programme.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

But to Chesney, it is how you respond to those successes and failures that prevail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

My intense devotion to the cause of justice has led to this lengthy diatribe, and 1 feel that my Levy circle-within-a- circle is zooming upward to new successes and heights.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole