succession
Example Sentences
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Maskell said Andrew should also be stripped of his succession rights to the throne, as well as a councillor of state.
From BBC
She’s encouraged her father to have more serious conversations about succession planning.
They are filmmakers, each of whom has directed, in succession, the biggest box-office moneymaker of all time.
The team that spent its first four decades of existence as a punch line and a purgatory has now had 14 consecutive winning seasons with a succession of basketball greats wearing its uniform.
From Los Angeles Times
SEOUL—The young daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears increasingly positioned to become the rogue nation’s next leader, Seoul’s spy agency said, though Pyongyang itself has stayed mum on succession plans.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
