Synonym: order, progression, sequence, series. Similar words: ecological succession, success, successful, successfully, cession, recession, secession, concession. Meaning: [sək'seʃn] n. 1. a following of one thing after another in time 2. a group of people or things arranged or following in order 3. the action of following in order 4. (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established 5. acquisition of property by descent or by will.
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151. Willows, which pioneered the succession during the Late-glacial period, do the same on urban areas.
152. A succession of injuries produced an inconsistent season for one of our best players.
153. The succession also raises immediate questions about the qualifications of Westin, who has no news background.
154. When a user browses the Web, objects are retrieved in rapid succession from often widely dispersed servers.
155. Lucy threw down three glasses in succession like water in the broiling sun.
156. You will never have the put-in at two scrums in succession unless the other side knock-on trying to intercept.
157. A fundamental issue was whether religious authority was ultimately vested in an ecclesiastical succession or in the Bible alone.
158. A dancing person appears as a succession of frozen statuesque attitudes.
159. In his eagerness to escape the encroaching flames, he worked the action and fired three times in rapid succession.
160. In rapid succession, he unzipped her moleskin trousers and drew the skimpy white lace G-string from her thighs.
161. In 1562 and again in 1566 the Privy Council urged Elizabeth in vain to marry and secure the succession.
162. These precedents encouraged lawyers to talk of the immemorial law of the Salian Franks under which women were excluded from the succession.
163. By planting up large containers with a mixture of varieties, a succession of colours can be achieved.
164. He liked women, and before his marriage had enjoyed a succession of casual, satisfactory and uncommitted affairs.
165. May 1910, and it was necessary for his eldest son to become King George V, in his succession.
166. In the late nineteenth century a succession of small lines had been built to connect the Malayan tin mines to the coast.
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167. A succession of scandals finally persuaded his father that William must seek his fortune overseas.
168. A succession of marquees led to the fairground complex, dominated by a great ferris wheel.
169. McCoy returned a few minutes later and quickly hit two mid-range jumpers and blocked two Bryant Boston shots in succession.
170. It's a hilarious scene with a succession of brilliant one-liners from Groucho Marx.
171. It also caps many of the Jura box-folds, where the Cretaceous succession has been eroded away.
172. His rise to Divisional, then Corps Commander followed in rapid succession.
173. The rules for succession after the death of a statutory tenant have been changed.
174. Direct page addressing by entering the succession of actual option numbers as a single selection.
175. Thus high office remains accessible to a relatively wide range of royal kin and commoners wield significant power over the succession.
176. Consider in this light the succession of governments in the post-war period up to 1979.
177. No one tackles its succession of hairpin bends unless they have to: it is a particularly dangerous stretch of road.
178. Nominal independence in 1960 brought a succession of inept, mostly military governments.
179. As early as 1196 Henry, a ruler of very considerable foresight, had prepared for the succession.
180. A succession of published polls typically produces a stream of more or less contradictory results.
More similar words: ecological succession, success, successful, successfully, cession, recession, secession, concession, accessible, inaccessible, succeed, session, succeed in, compression, aggression, suppression, confession, digression, oppression, profession, expression, depression, impression, professional, congressional, transgression, access, excessive, necessity, recessive.