earlier generation

Beyond Slayer, King says he looks to the examples of an earlier generation of metal players for guidance regarding his future.

Twenty years ago, in this same part of the Philippines, communist insurgents took up arms against an earlier generation of power plants that had displaced them.

So, Mosby had to look to an earlier generation of prosecutors, like Kamala Harris, as role models.

But as my Ba Ngoai was telling me, she’s like earlier generation.

In 2017, a Japanese navy SH-60J, an earlier generation Seahawk, crashed during nighttime training due to human error, killing three crew.