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Mr. Cregger is a successor to Mr. Carpenter also, but with more comedic finesse and more cleverness, plus a facility for sinuous plotting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Jens Berthel Askou brought zest and enjoyment to Fir Park last season and Alfred Johansson, his successor, is trying to build on that.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

One traffic and news pilot, Captain Max’s successor Jim Hicklin, was killed more or less in the line of duty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

CEO Shantanu Narayen is due to step down at the start of December, and the company recently named Anil Chakravarthy, the leader of its Customer Experience Orchestration business, to be his successor.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Mr. Hawkins, the deputy head who had compromised with it at once, was confirmed as successor to the old headmaster, who had disappeared.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

A ceiling on computing power, fewer frontier training runs or limits on AI systems designing their successors would strike much closer to the semiconductor industry.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

North Korean state media have also referred to her as "the beloved child" and a "great person of guidance" -- "hyangdo" in Korean -- a term typically reserved for top leaders and their successors.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

After Kander died in 1940 at the age of 82, her successors worked to adapt her cookbook to post-World War II food trends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Earlier, he told an Edinburgh Fringe event that leading Scottish Labour was the hardest job in British politics and urged his potential successors to avoid infighting.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

But it is harder to understand why his medieval successors had not developed his theories in order to show how they might be put to work by artists.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton