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
Together, China’s first dynasties—the Shang, Zhou, and Qin—produced an imperial blueprint for harnessing the power of an agrarian civilization that succeeding generations of Chinese adopted and modified to found their own dynasties.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Then in 1927, a professor of zoology in a Texas university, Dr. H. J. Muller, found that by exposing an organism to X-radiation, he could produce mutations in succeeding generations.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
