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geslaagd in English:

1. successful


Every successful writer has a drawer full of rejection letters.
successful lawyer
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
While American methods are often successful, the Japanese educational system that produces the most literate people in the world surely has some lessons to teach the U.S.
Although his exam scores weren't very high, he was still successful after graduation.
Once dismissed as an artificial language, Esperanto has gained the respect of a new generation of linguists, as the most successful planned language of all time.
Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian politician, the current Prime Minister of Italy, as well as a successful entrepreneur.
Admittedly, models of hegemonic order cannot provide an explanation for all observed successful bargaining strategies.
The traditional way of learning a language may satisfy at most one's sense of duty, but it can hardly serve as a source of joy. Nor will it likely be successful.
Outside the mainstream of orthodox Judaism, the apocalyptic books were more successful with certain movements.
He's a successful businessman. (On jest odnoszącym sukcesy biznesmenem The campaign was very successful. (Kampania była bardzo skuteczna.)
The Chinese government has spent a lot of money on research into successful panda breeding in order to increase their birth rate.
I've always thought that rickshaws and sukiyaki were the most successful amongst the products made from what was imported from the West during the Meiji period.
But it was not successful for long because everyone, even religious people, had a strong attraction to the game.
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

English word "geslaagd"(successful) occurs in sets:

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2. succeeded


We succeeded!
Judging from the look on his face, it seems that he has succeeded.
I tried for a long time before I succeeded.
It is through hard work that he succeeded, not through good luck.
One king after another succeeded to the throne during those few years.
The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.
The Wright brothers succeeded in flying an airplane driven by an engine.
I have been trying for a long time and today I finally succeeded: I divided by zero.
Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Since its birth in 1969 the 747 has succeeded
He succeeded, not because he made efforts, but because he happened to be lucky.
Let me tell you this. No one succeeded without making an effort.
It is not because he had a faculty for business but because he was lucky that he succeeded in business.
In the fourth place, even if we succeeded in carrying off the bear cubs, we could not run up a mountain without stopping to rest.
Mr Koizumi succeeded Mr Mori as prime minister.

English word "geslaagd"(succeeded) occurs in sets:

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