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Thomas Jefferson's presidential predecessor was John Adams.predecessor = one who precedes another in time
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Some insight into the tragedy of Chris McCandless can be gained by studying predecessors cut from the same exotic cloth. (source)predecessors = people who preceded him
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These women grew on trees, on a stem running into the tops of their heads, and were picked when ripe by their predecessors. (source)predecessors = people who precede others in time
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In fact, I gather your first visit here dates back to the days of my predecessor....† (source)predecessor = one who precedes another in time
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A new commander couldn't inherit a good standing from his predecessor—he was ranked according to what he had done.† (source)
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Those trees to your left and right are called cycads, the prehistoric predecessors of palm trees.† (source)predecessors = people who precede others in time
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And I must say, you're taking it a lot better than your predecessor.† (source)predecessor = one who precedes another in time
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It is my hope that over the years our organization has in some part paid the price for the unspeakable act committed against humanity by our predecessors in government.† (source)predecessors = people who precede others in time
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I couldn't help but compare Maxon to his predecessor.† (source)predecessor = one who precedes another in time
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There the School's history had unrolled, the fabled riot scenes and Presidential visits and Civil War musterings, if not in these buildings then in their predecessors on the same site.† (source)predecessors = people who precede others in time
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Even dealers were censorious of the sums I spent, thousands of dollars every few weeks; Jack (Jerome's predecessor) had scolded me about it repeatedly even as he sat in the filthy beanbag chair from which he conducted his business, counting my hundreds fresh from the teller's window.† (source)predecessor = one who precedes another in time
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Other transports come bringing men to deal with their predecessors.† (source)predecessors = people who precede others in time
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Even the summer of '64 was uninspired—except for the completion of the replacement Mary Magdalene, which was firmly set upon Owen Meany's formidable pedestal in the St. Michael's schoolyard, more than two years after the attack upon her predecessor.† (source)predecessor = one who precedes another in time
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Some even attempted to turn their predecessors into religious prophets.† (source)predecessors = people who precede others in time
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It's four times as fast as its predecessor.† (source)predecessor = one who precedes another in time
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Understandably, they feared that if their own brotherhood one day died off like its predecessors, the Ancient Mysteries would be lost for all time.† (source)predecessors = people who precede others in time
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