succeeding generations
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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
Charter’s opening words, “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2022
The massive mosque, covering nearly 261,000 square feet, was built in 784 and then expanded by succeeding generations of Muslim rulers known as caliphs.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2022
Information was recorded in bibles and family records and passed down orally to succeeding generations.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2022
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
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