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English word

successor

C1Academic AWL-7
UK /səkˈsesə(r)/US /səkˈsesər/
noun

a person or thing that comes after somebody/something else and takes their/its place

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Ban Ki-moon's Harvard Kennedy School Graduation Address (2023)
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Here he is—a Nobel Peace Laureate of 2016—and, in fact, he is my immediate successor when it comes to the Global Leaders Fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School.

Ban Ki-moon's Harvard Kennedy School Graduation Address (2023)

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Transportation: I think the smart strategy is to first go for cargo delivery—essentially satellite delivery—and our eventual upgrade path is to fold the successor to Saturn V.

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