successor
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Cutting loose McDaniel would be expensive, too, and there’s no clear successor waiting in the wings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
In the first case, he said, the party would have to find a successor quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
After trawling through dozens of applications, the hunt is over: an Australian animal welfare group has found a successor to a hero hound credited with saving more than 100 koalas from fires.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The country banned trophy hunting in 2014 under former President Ian Khama but lifted the restrictions five years later under his successor, Mokgweetsi Masisi.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Now, I should have thought the natural successor to the job, once Draco fails, is yourself?”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
This ongoing Lorne Watch, with predictions of his retirement and potential successors, began around Season 40 and continues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
Early in the summer, the AI industry said it was close to having machines capable enough to train their successors, a potential first step to losing control of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
His long stay abroad has also stoked talk of a post-Biya future and accelerated jockeying among would-be successors as questions over who might replace him persist.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
So the Olmec and their successors must have had the wheel for more than two thousand years.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The Giver
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