Sample Sentences for
predecessor
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    And I hope you'll take to heart the lesson to be learned from the fate of your predecessor.†  (source)
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    I couldn't help but compare Maxon to his predecessor.†  (source)
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    I am Brother Fowles, your predecessor in this mission.†  (source)
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    In fact, I gather your first visit here dates back to the days of my predecessor....†  (source)
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    Those trees to your left and right are called cycads, the prehistoric predecessors of palm trees.†  (source)
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    And I must say, you're taking it a lot better than your predecessor.†  (source)
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    Some even attempted to turn their predecessors into religious prophets.†  (source)
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    I don't know what killer she's referring to—Jeanine Matthews's predecessor, maybe?†  (source)
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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)
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    Auk XIII jumped from the pad in a similar blurred frenzy to its predecessor.†  (source)
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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)
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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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    Building on the work of predecessors such as Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler, he laid out the principles of his laws of motion, the universal theories that tied the work of these great minds together.†  (source)
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