succeeding

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"The arms market is quite a delicate thing and succeeding there with one swift move or a single tour ... is very difficult," Magda said.

From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026

Craig will become CEO and a director of BHP on July 1, succeeding Mike Henry, who has led the company for more than six years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

It also comes after Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, broke his silence for the first time as the country’s supreme leader since succeeding his father, Ali Khamenei, was killed in an air strike.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Earlier this week, Disneyland Resort President Thomas Mazloum was named the company’s new parks chief, succeeding D’Amaro in a key business area for Disney.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Between 10,000 and 9000 B.C. the people living there may already have been residing year-round in villages, but they were still hunter-gatherers; crop cultivation began only in the succeeding millennium.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond