- present participle of succeed.
succeeding
Example Sentences
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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
Prosperity’s great paradox may be its failure to teach succeeding generations how difficult it was to create, and how easily it can be lost.
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
For two succeeding years I was alone each winter for eight months at a stretch in the Sierra Nevada mountains on Lake Tahoe.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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