predecessor
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Van Raemdonck said there are currently no active discussions about selling a stake in Bergdorf Goodman, a plan put in place by his predecessor.
The commissioner's latest inquiry followed two previous investigations by his predecessor, in 2022 and 2023, that found the Tory peer's actions had not breached the Lords code of conduct.
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Mr. Booker goes out of his way to show that he followed the advice of one of his Democratic Senate predecessors, Bill Bradley, to meet and get to know his Republican colleagues.
Unlike his predecessor, he will never say "this is maybe the worst team in the history of Manchester United", Ruben Amorim offering that opinion just over a year ago after a home defeat by Brighton.
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A Family Matter is the first debut novel to win the overall prize at the Nero Book Awards or their predecessors, the Costa Book Awards, since 2013.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
