successions

noun

plural of succession
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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2
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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Recent Examples of successions France has endured record-breaking successions of heatwaves this summer, which have led to massive wildfires and a spike in the normal death rate, according to French public health services. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Helaena, however, is not concerned with thrones or successions. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 History shows family successions, whether in North Korea or Syria, tend to happen through rigid authoritarian control, with the transfer of power underwritten by whoever controls the military. — Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026 Plant additional successions of sunflowers every week or two to enjoy blooms later in the summer. — Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 11 May 2026 For authoritarian regimes, survival is uncertain, and never more so than during inescapable successions. — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for successions
  1. series
  2. lineages
  3. strings
  4. descents
  5. sequences
  6. births
  7. relations
  8. races
Noun
  • The team trails 2-1 in the series and will look to even the series before the Finals return to San Francisco for game five on Monday night.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The six-episode, 30-minutes-per-episode series is as breezy as the Irish coast’s weather.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of series
Noun
  • Farms spend decades breeding mink to develop unique genetic lineages.
    — Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Some ancestral lineages diverged roughly 21,000 years ago, according to the review.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of lineages
Noun
  • There’s nothing off limits here, nothing too garish to clash with saxophone and strings.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In higher-dimensional gravity, certain black-hole-like objects, such as black strings, can become unstable and fragment.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of strings
Noun
  • He was hailed as the first successful parachutist and went on to make some 200 additional descents.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
  • But the paint allegedly became slippery in the sun, and three riders, including one known as a master of descents, crashed.
    — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of descents
Noun
  • Large language models are designed to predict likely sequences of language.
    — Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • During one of the film’s most unsettling sequences, the main character, Peter, wakes up in bed disoriented.
    — Arryn Robbins, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of sequences
Noun
  • On the columns of train stations, stickers bore the smiling faces of soldiers in their twenties alongside motivational quotes and the dates of their births and deaths.
    — Jordi Graupera, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The results show that birth rates increased last year among women ages 30 to 44, while births among women under 30 declined.
    — David Hickey, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of births
Noun
  • Her return could complicate relations between the Venezuelan opposition, the interim government and Washington.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Tehran residents said neither election is likely to improve relations.
    — Amir-Hussein Radjy, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of relations
Noun
  • If the current odds in all those states hold, the Democrats would win 18 out of 35 races and shift the majority from 53-47 for the Republicans to 52-48 for the Democrats.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • In just 11 days, millions of Americans will head to the polls to vote on key local races and decide the fate of Congress.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of races

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“Successions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/successions. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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