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
Organisms may evolve in response to their changing environment by the accumulation of favorable traits in succeeding generations.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Charter, and would reaffirm the General Assembly’s determination “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2022
His long life of service, his Kansas values, his sharp sense of humor, his love of country: They were all great gifts to his and succeeding generations.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021
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
