predecessors

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Predecessors to our modern cities include not just the proto-megalopolis, but also the proto-garden-city, the proto-superblock, and a cornucopia of other urban forms, waiting for us to reclaim them.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021

Predecessors Dennis Miller, Colin Quinn, and MacDonald have used “Update” as their own nightclub stage, but Davidson’s bringing the performative rules of social media to SNL: “Weekend Update” is becoming his status update.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2018

Predecessors flooded them with advice about how to serve, how to subvert, how to resign.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2018

Predecessors from the 1980s and ’90s like Mike Kelley and Cady Noland are two obvious formal influences on these and other works in the show.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2016

It is indeed wonderful how greatly the progress of Catholicism is favored by those frequent assemblies of the Bishops, which our Predecessors have more than once approved.

From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by Daly, George Thomas