predecessors

Example Sentences

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That’s why the company spent years looking for a fabric that makes new models less noisy than their predecessors.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Harvard may get a more empowering storyline than his florist-hairdresser-retail-clerk predecessors, but the humor is redolent of the same punishing cliches.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

And on that basis, what he’s doing is incomparable to the many capital renewals of his predecessors.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

He also met with Congress more often than his predecessors, according to research External link from Thomas Drechsel, an economic professor at the University of Maryland.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

When we are studying ideas, linguistic change is the key to finding out what people understood that their predecessors did not.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton