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
In “Buddenbrooks,” Thomas Mann depicted succeeding generations living comfortably on inherited wealth while progressively losing the hard bourgeois virtues that created it.
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
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
