predecessor
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Demand for OpenAI’s Codex exploded this winter when the company introduced its latest model, which has far superior coding abilities than its predecessors.
In the 1960s, the Department of Defense developed the internet’s predecessor, ARPAnet, to help keep military and government computers secure.
From Los Angeles Times
The cable project created friction between Kast and his left-wing predecessor Gabriel Boric in the final days of Boric's presidency.
From Barron's
If he hadn’t acted, his successor would have been left with an even more dangerous choice than his predecessors left him.
From secret efforts to derail the German economy to ensuring U.S. and Western banks wouldn’t do business with their German counterparts, the predecessors to today’s financial sanctions were born.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
