successor
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Apple investors almost certainly are far better off for it — and Cook’s successor, John Ternus, would do well to follow in his footsteps.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
Mozeliak probably won’t be around to see the folly of this trade as he will leave this winter and his successor will have to pick up the pieces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Brown-Forman Chief Executive Lawson Whiting announced plans earlier this month to step down once a successor is named.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Many considered Winkleman, 54, to be chat show emperor Graham Norton's presumptive successor - not least because he seemed to be ushering her through himself.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
There were four little girls, and two little boys, besides the baby who might have been either, and the baby’s next successor who was as yet neither.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
None of Graham’s aspiring successors will fill that role, but some may come closer to it than others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
One reason is that the annals of Congress are full of female successors who did exactly that, partly out of fidelity to their seats’ previous occupants.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
But Rabin, and several of his successors, have done precisely that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Starmer, who announced on Monday he was stepping down after losing the support of his own MPs, has authorised so-called access talks with prospective successors to begin "as soon as possible," Downing Street said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The spirit of musical invention heralded by Monteverdi was enthusiastically taken up by his successors over the following century.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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