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
When the damage accumulates over many succeeding generations, we will have had plenty of advance warning.
From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022
Organisms may evolve in response to their changing environment by the accumulation of favorable traits in succeeding generations.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Yet that obsession damaged those around him, and succeeding generations of Vanderbilts, fairly and unfairly, became symbols of the “idle rich” and frittered away a fortune.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2021
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
