successor
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They’d like to offer just FM, the cooler, higher-quality successor.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
The board initiated a search process to find a successor, while Vice-Chairman and former CEO Dieter Weisskopf will take on the role on an interim basis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The successor therefore builds on an operating program, although its promised performance remains ahead.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Leo has yet to create any cardinals, the red-hatted Princes of the Church who will vote in the conclave to elect his successor.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
And a new dimension entered the combat: a father’s awareness of a growing son, the son as challenger, the son as threat, the son as successor, the son as man.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
People familiar with the deal’s progression said Lorch soon became involved in structuring key aspects of the deal beyond its financing, including how the board would sit for 15 years and choose its successors.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
The plan would make the Trump International Club in West Palm Beach -- where the 80-year-old billionaire often spends weekends on the fairway -- into an official sanctuary for his successors.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 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
Engelsman says all three former presenters were supportive of their successors and "were very paternal and caring about it".
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Somewhere around 800 a.d. their hungry successors took another look at the crop and liked what they saw.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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