Succeed Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster

Ghosh’s remarkable detective work

succeeds

in rescuing an entire group of marginalized figures from British and South Asian amnesia, if not outright denial.

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Maya Jasanoff

New York Review of Books

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Enter Gordon Brown. Journalistic legend has it that, over dinner in a trendy London restaurant as long ago as 1994, the two of them settled that Blair would lead the Labour party for an unspecified length of time and Brown would then

succeed

him.

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David Pryce-Jones

National Review

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Maguire, a freelance writer who specializes in culture and technology and recently published a book about spelling bees, paints a vivid portrait of Sullivan as a tough-minded micromanager who tightly controlled every aspect of his show, even telling Ella Fitzgerald what to sing. Behind the avuncular, slightly befuddled façade viewers knew, he writes, was a man consumed by ambition and driven to

succeed

at any cost.

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Peter Keepnews

New York Times Book Review

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You can succeed where others failed.

The plan just might succeed.

Their attempt seemed unlikely to succeed.

Both of them have ambitions to succeed the prime minister.

She will succeed him as chair of the committee.

The Queen died and was succeeded by James I.

James I succeeded to the throne upon the Queen’s death in 1603.

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