succeeding generations
Example Sentences
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His impact on composers of succeeding generations, whether they accept him or oppose him, is indelible.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2024
Imagine — or if you’re young or distant enough, enjoy — a moment when Beatles songs weren’t bone-deep familiar, weren’t canonical, weren’t thoroughly embedded in succeeding generations of rock and pop.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2022
Organisms may evolve in response to their changing environment by the accumulation of favorable traits in succeeding generations.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Information was recorded in bibles and family records and passed down orally to succeeding generations.
From Washington Post • May 4, 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
