How to Use succeed in a Sentence
succeed
verb
- The plan just might succeed.
- She will succeed him as chair of the committee.
- You can succeed where others failed.
- Both of them have ambitions to succeed the prime minister.
- Their attempt seemed unlikely to succeed.
- 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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The job of any team is to put their players in the best position to succeed.
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Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2023
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Brazilians have seen coups succeed and stay for decades.
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Prem Thakker,
The New Republic,
9 Jan. 2023
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Why were the researchers able to succeed in dating the ship when others had failed?
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 July 2024
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On YouTube, viewers see the drone missions that succeed, not those that fail.
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Foreign Affairs,
13 Dec. 2023
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Maya Hawke: And are watching each other grow and fail and succeed.
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Josh Rottenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Sep. 2023
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Pacheco feels blessed to have parents that care for him so much and that further drives him to succeed.
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Glenn Graham,
Baltimore Sun,
31 Mar. 2023
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Duro succeeds Eli Velazquez, who is leaving the company at the end of the month.
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Sportico Staff,
Sportico.com,
27 Sep. 2024
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As a kid, Wesley Jackson Wade should have been set up to succeed.
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Claire Sibonney,
CBS News,
7 Nov. 2023
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Teams will then select in the reverse order in each succeeding round of the 15-round draft.
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John Wawrow,
BostonGlobe.com,
16 Sep. 2023
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The teams that succeed often in those are usually the teams that do all the little things right and have a good bullpen.
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Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2024
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After that effort did not succeed, the project was given more than a year to wind down.
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Jacob Ward,
NBC News,
5 Dec. 2023
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Valenti will succeed Renaud de Lesquen, who’s been at the helm since April 2020.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
3 July 2024
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Young people arrive, some stay and some go, some succeed and some fail.
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Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2023
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Recruits should like that his offenses succeeded in both the MAC and the Pac-12.
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Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Dec. 2023
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Read more Ed Lab: Some high-poverty schools do succeed.
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Rebecca Griesbach | [email protected],
al,
9 Aug. 2023
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They were stunned that the Allies had succeeded in so little time.
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Ashraya Gupta,
Scientific American,
14 Sep. 2023
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Its title refers to her successful style of breaking the rules to succeed.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Nov. 2023
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To achieve success in football, a team has to succeed in all facets of the game: offense, defense and special teams.
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Dallas News,
26 Feb. 2023
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To succeed, Eggman’s bill will likely need to pass that same committee in the coming months.
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Sophia Bollag,
San Francisco Chronicle,
29 Mar. 2023
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That means the Warriors didn’t succeed in wearing out the Lakers key players.
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Ann Killion,
San Francisco Chronicle,
6 May 2023
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Barry tries to make the accident occur and succeeds, sort of.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 June 2023
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Since joining the company and succeeding Anne-Véronique Bruel in the role last year, Elbaz has spent plenty of time at the brand’s stores around the world.
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Sandra Salibian,
WWD,
5 Nov. 2024
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With a proven roadmap to guide us, my team and I succeeded in truly transforming the organization’s processes and platforms and our most valuable asset, the people of Intuit.
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Mamie Jones,
Forbes,
5 Nov. 2024
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