predecessor
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Pyongyang sent trash-filled balloons and broadcast unsettling noises across the border during the administration of Lee's hawkish predecessor, Yoon Suk Yeol.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
“The principal problem with this list is the total ignorance about the work of independent journalism,” wrote Ramos, who has clashed publicly with Sheinbaum and her predecessor and mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Chandrasekaran’s predecessor, Cyrus Mistry, publicly fumed that some Tata Sons board directors would hold up board meetings to consult with Ratan Tata.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The new CS-4 aims to help speed up these workflows by increasing the amount of tokens generated per megawatt tenfold relative to its CS-3 predecessor.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
He was in constant touch with his future predecessor and received long weekly letters of guidance from him.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
And though we may evolve as a people, we also remain the same in many ways: Folks today often act like their predecessors did during Shakespeare’s time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Gen Zers are generally not the biggest creatures of the night and studies show they drink much less than their predecessors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Subsequent qualifications have been the legacy of Euro 2016, while future ambitions are proof of a desire to ensure generations to come continue to build on the foundations laid by their predecessors.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Because we can blame a lot of the difficulty we have with weight loss today on our predecessors of the past – maybe the ultimate case of blame the parents.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
His paternal grandfather had made his living handcrafting rowboats for the professional watermen who plied the Thames in London, providing water-taxi and ferry services as their predecessors had done for centuries.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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