succession
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Two pit stops followed in quick succession, plummeting the Italian down the field.
From BBC • Jul. 5, 2026
Stalin’s death in 1953 sparked a succession fight and ultimately a process of “de-Stalinization” that dismantled his personality cult and program of mass terror.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 5, 2026
The question becomes more prominent when it intersects with governance questions like a closely divided vote or succession concerns.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2026
But the attack also further revealed the startling US and Israeli intelligence penetration of Iran, a strategic weakness exposed in the 2025 war when Israel killed a succession of key figures in targeted strikes.
From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026
When Ptolemy I started to show evidence of favoring succession to one of his younger sons, the future Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Demetrius opined in favor of the interests of Eurydice, the old king’s first wife.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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