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succession

[suhk-sesh-uhn] / səkˈsɛʃ ən /
NOUN
continuation
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Many German institutions had just started relaxing travel restrictions to Iraq after a succession of conflicts, including the 2003 US-led invasion and the extremist Islamic State group.

From Barron's

The students called for more permanent teachers to be appointed, saying they had been taught by a succession of supply staff in a number of subjects.

From BBC

Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal

While Sweeney said that succession planning for the head coach role continued as normal, just as it did for his own role and that of other executives, he would not be drawn on specifics.

From BBC

Satellite imagery taken in the days after the strike shows at least four buildings destroyed in quick succession.

From BBC