predecessor
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GTA 6 is expected to surpass its predecessor on every level, not only in scale and scope, but also in revenue.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Albanese's conservative predecessor Tony Abbott landed in hot water in 2015 for laughing at a joke by his immigration minister about time-keeping on Pacific islands and the threat of sea flooding due to climate change.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
By blaming his predecessor, he has deflected attention from his own promise to improve things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
But much like its predecessor, there’s plenty of petty clashes and misunderstandings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Finally, of course, my mother’s upraised hand is a kind of warning, too, a predecessor of the black box.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Chris Robshaw, one of Itoje's predecessors, was haunted by those decisions.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
References to his predecessors have been removed from the constitution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
The idea that these funds could generate the same returns as their predecessors makes no sense.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
In August, the great Ricky Ponting, one of his predecessors as Australia's number three, called for the axe to fall.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
For the new scientists of the second half of the seventeenth century were in a quite different position from their classical, Arab and medieval predecessors.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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