predecessors

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He also met with Congress more often than his predecessors, according to research External link from Thomas Drechsel, an economic professor at the University of Maryland.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

Incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is a former Fed insider who talks like an outsider and has promised to revamp the institution and make a clean break from his predecessors.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Since the bulbs are more efficient than their predecessors, the overhaul reduces annual carbon emissions by 67,000 metric tons and saves roughly $10 million in energy each year.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

Both regimes were more tyrannical than all predecessors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 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