1
as in series
a series of things, people, events, or actions arranged or happening one after another
He experienced a succession of car repairs that set him back thousands of dollars.
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as in lineages
the order of people in a family
The prince is third in the line of succession to the throne.
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Martin, 38, created, co-wrote and stars in Wayward, a Netflix mystery series that follows a local police officer's investigation into a local school for troubled teens in an isolated small town.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
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The Jays are entering the series against the Dodgers as underdogs according to baseball experts and betting odds.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Participants danced and sang songs native to their tribal lineages.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
20 Oct. 2025
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The various lineages of Ursuța’s work are unmistakable.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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The workers check and replace the large plastic bulbs on the long strings of lights and then use pulleys and hoists to hang and sometimes muscle those long strands of faceted lights onto the branches.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Oct. 2025
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Proudfoot and his team, including Kris Bowers, pull all the right (if predictable) emotional strings, underscoring Hesse’s memories with majestic orchestral music fit for an Old Hollywood epic.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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These in-bounds, hike-to zones offer a backcountry feel with truly hair-raising descents.—
Charles Curkin,
Vogue,
27 Oct. 2025
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Every year, these men and women gather on a sprawling ridgeline near Zion National Park in Utah, and proceed to see who can ride the least rideable-looking line down a mountain bigger than your last 5 descents, combined.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
15 Oct. 2025
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People sometimes compare the brain to a digital machine operating with sequences of impulses and silences.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Oct. 2025
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There are several sequences where Gwen is being thrown around like a ragdoll.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
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Even so, China counted half as many births last year as in 2016, the year China ended its decades-old One Child Policy.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Right whale births and new mothers are cause for celebration each year, yet the 2025 calving numbers lagged behind what researchers had hoped for.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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And Japan needs to balance relations with China, its largest economic partner, too.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
28 Oct. 2025
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With aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relations, my mother and I listened to the prayers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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But like other governer races, voters are divided along partisan lines.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Turn 1 is the first real passing opportunity of the COTA lap, where races can be won or lost in the opening seconds.—
Patrick Iversen,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Successions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/successions. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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