succeed
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Five women and three men are in the running to succeed Antonio Guterres as leader of the United Nations, which faces unprecedented global instability, wars and its own crushing budget crisis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
And he isn’t the only one rooting for Tugboat to succeed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
His soccer background has provided him the tools to succeed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
In June, Brook said it would be an "honour" to be asked to succeed Stokes.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
But Eisenhower was willing to take the heat, as long as there was still a chance for his meeting with the Soviet leader to succeed.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
“The government would make out if the company succeeds in terms of collection but founders would not be personally liable if the company somehow failed,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
His latest film succeeds because it’s not trying to make audiences say, “I like this, because it reminds me of that.”
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
And, if a project succeeds, you’ve left a paper trail that shows you were instrumental in its execution.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
Like a schoolboy, he fills his notebooks with Latin words, but he never really succeeds.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Burnham succeeded former Labour Party leader Keir Starmer as prime minister on July 20.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
All three approaches had been tested individually before, but none had succeeded in permanently clearing the virus.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Cracker Barrel announced in July that Chief Executive Julie Masino would depart this month, succeeded by restaurant industry veteran David Deno.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
He also said Labour needed to "learn to win again", arguing that it succeeded when it was "rooted in communities and serious about people's lives".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Unfortunately, he didn’t come close to reaching, and only succeeded in spinning himself around in a circle.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
"I stand ready to help renew the UN Charter's foundational promise: to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war."
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
In “Buddenbrooks,” Thomas Mann depicted succeeding generations living comfortably on inherited wealth while progressively losing the hard bourgeois virtues that created it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
But the coaches know they have someone passionate about succeeding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Departing alone from Pakistan, he tried a dozen times to cross into Europe via Greece then Bulgaria before succeeding.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
His hopes of succeeding accelerated when one day Perry produced a pastel drawing he had made—a large, in no way technically naive portrait of Jesus.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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