succeeding generations
Example Sentences
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"I stand ready to help renew the UN Charter's foundational promise: to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war."
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Prosperity’s great paradox may be its failure to teach succeeding generations how difficult it was to create, and how easily it can be lost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
His impact on composers of succeeding generations, whether they accept him or oppose him, is indelible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Organisms may evolve in response to their changing environment by the accumulation of favorable traits in succeeding generations.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
I knew, as everyone knows, the true but incomplete statement of the problem—that an original sin of the fathers was being visited on the children of succeeding generations.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
