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Example sentences for: predecessors

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Second, Clinton hasn't used the bully pulpit to speak out against drug use nearly as often as his two predecessors did.
Huang was not really an innovator; he was simply more successful than his predecessors in both parties in tapping ethnic subcultures for cash.
Unlike our predecessors, I knew of nobody in my group in the late '50s who had ever listened to, or liked, people like Frank Sinatra or Perry Como.
The result of this reliance on lawsuits by Clinton, his presidential predecessors, and Congress is what Brookings Institution scholar Jonathan Rauch calls "microgovernment."
Of her predecessors, only Kissinger exercised a comparable hold over the public imagination, but he achieved it by exploiting the drama and mystique of his diplomatic undertakings.