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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
succeed .
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Examples
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He succeeded in arresting two of them, but the third made fight; and upon _being shot in the shoulder_, fled to a sluice, where the _dogs succeeded_ in drowning him before assistance could arrive. "
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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He succeeded in arresting two of them, but the third made fight; and upon _being shot in the shoulder_, fled to a sluice, where the _dogs succeeded_ in drowning him before assistance could arrive. "
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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In Germany the term succeeded because it found a vacuum: terms such as the first and second
BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968
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"I always thought that the next heir to a title succeeded to it, as soon as his father died."
With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman 1867
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We succeeded from a nation because we did not want a king, and this stooge now thinks we want one!
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To think any terrorist would just repeat the same old method that failed or succeeded is just silly.
Matthew Yglesias » Townsend: Time to Start Being Polite, and Start Getting Vague and Hawkish 2010
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Mike Griffin succeeded at several important things:
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Whether Brasilia succeeded is still a matter for discussion -- with plenty of lessons learned for those in Asia now contemplating their own instant cities.
J. Michael Welton: Toward an Instant City J. Michael Welton 2010
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Whether Brasilia succeeded is still a matter for discussion -- with plenty of lessons learned for those in Asia now contemplating their own instant cities.
J. Michael Welton: Toward an Instant City J. Michael Welton 2010
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Whether Brasilia succeeded is still a matter for discussion -- with plenty of lessons learned for those in Asia now contemplating their own instant cities.
J. Michael Welton: Toward an Instant City J. Michael Welton 2010
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