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After climaxing with a pointless competition, the film offers a perplexing moral: All you need to succeed is to be a cocky jerk.

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  1. intransitive verb To come next in time or succession; follow after another; replace another in an office or a position: She succeeded to the throne.
  2. intransitive verb To accomplish something desired or intended: "Success is counted sweetest/By those who ne'er succeed” (Emily Dickinson).
  3. intransitive verb Obsolete To devolve upon a person by way of inheritance.
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  • Maybe this mission was fated to succeed, and the right people would appear along her route. —  Cube Route
  • She wanted to succeed, and to become beautiful, and win Ryver for her man. —  Cube Route
  • Even if they succeed, they often raise up hosts of enemies in the persons whose methods they propose to supersede. —  Industrial Biography
  • As this did not succeed, a second party began a counter demonstration in another quarter. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • When they do not see things succeed, and as they regard them only by their success, and are not willing to have the affront of their pretensions being thought uncertain, and liable to mistake, they seek without for supports. —  AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MADAME GUYON
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  1. Middle English succeden, from Old French succeder, from Latin succēdere : sub-, near; see sub- + cēdere, to go; see ked- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French succeder, French succeder = Spanish suceder = Portuguese succeder = Italian succidere, soccidcre, succeed, from Latin succedere, go below, go under, go from under, mount, also go near, come near, approach, follow after, follow, succeed, go well, prosper, from sub, under, + cedere, go: see cede.
 

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