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What does succession mean?

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Noun
  1. An act of following in sequence.
  2. A sequence of things in order.
  3. A passing of royal powers.
  4. A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
  5. (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
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The sports talk station gives you a succession of men whose absorption in a fantasy world is, to me, borderline insane.
The two adaxial sepals are formed in succession, and the two abaxial petals become visible.
The exclusion of the Corsicans in the high administration, the legal inequalities and the economic situation started a succession of jacqueries.
These sounds, called clicks, can be produced in such rapid succession as to sound like a buzz or even a duck-like quack.
Their attitudes and aims determined the outcome of succession dispute, not merely who won, but what he acquired.
However, a succession of penalty corners from Aldridge resulted in two quick goals and suddenly the game was slipping away again.

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