Reigned
Succeeded
Reigned and succeeded are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Reigned" instead a verb "Succeeded".
Nearby Word: succeeding
Both words in one sentence
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After Hitler committed suicide in 1945, Goebbels succeeded him as Chancellor of Germany and reigned for thirty hours before he shot his wife and then himself.
Source: Characters / Nazi Germany -
Had he actually succeeded his father on the throne he would have reigned for 88 years, becoming one of the longest reigning monarchs in European history.
- At the end of the first book of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy, the protagonists have succeeded in killing the immortal Lord Ruler, who had reigned over the Final Empire for a thousand years.
Source: Evil Power Vacuum
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