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• King John cast his predecessor in a negative light to deflect criticism of his own questionable decisions.From the entry cast
• Today's cars emit less NoX at the tailpipe than their 20th-century predecessors did.From the entry tailpipe
• In imperial China, it was often a responsibility of the emperor to evaluate his predecessor after the latter's death.From the entry emperor
• Next, Francis declined to move into the gilded papal apartment vacated by his predecessor.2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian. From the entry hostel
• Just imagine if my predecessor came to this dinner this year.2022 April 30, Joe Biden, 1:02 from the start, in President Biden complete remarks at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner (C-SPAN)…. From the entry coup
• Hu, 79, Xi Jinping's immediate predecessor, was seated to the left of Xi.2022 October 22, Eduardo Baptista, Ryan Woo, “Former Chinese president Hu Jintao escorted out of party congress”, in Robert Birsel…. From the entry lead off
• He was also refreshingly theory-lite – and free from the obligation to marmorealise any ideological predecessors.2018 April 25, Will Self, The Guardian. From the entry marmorealize
• One of Yip Li-Ching's favourite treats was the ice ball, a predecessor of ice kachang.2012 August 3, Jaime Koh, Singapore Children Society, Singapore Childhood, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry ice kachang
• Early fifteenth-century leg defenses (legharnesses) also differed little from their fourteenth-century predecessors.2012, Kelly DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, Medieval Military Technology, 2nd edition, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry legharness
• Whereas his predecessor was impetuous, Obama was praised for being contemplative and unflappable.2010 September 26, Gary Younge, “Obama won as cool and unflappable. But presidents need to act angry too”, in The Guardian, →ISSN…. From the entry unflappable
• But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize, Obama prefers the message to be just so.2009 March 5, Peter Baker, “The (very) scripted president”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 Nov 2011. From the entry extemporize
• Obama's predecessor was famously intolerant of details, but Obama is a wonk par excellence.2009 February 28, Oliver Burkeman, “Be wonkish and dress down: how Gordon can click with Obama”, in The Guardian. From the entry redistributionism
• Ali is irreverent, lazy and raspingly sardonic, and his obvious fictional predecessor is Joseph Heller ’s Yossarian.2008 June 15, Robert Macfarlane, “The Late Dictator”, in New York Times. From the entry raspingly
• The Internet is simply a far more efficient etymythology tool than its predecessors.2008, Bill Brohaugh, Everything You Know About English Is Wrong, Sourcebooks, page 68. From the entry etymythology
• President Bush took his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, on a highprofile visit to Graceland in Memphis, where Mr.2007 April 26, Norimitsu Onishi, “Japan Premier to Visit a Politically Changed Washington”, in New York Times. From the entry highprofile
• The glottogonic view was perhaps the principal difference between the Neogrammarians and their predecessors.2007, Prof. Lyle Campbell, Glossary of Historical Linguistics, page 72. From the entry glottogonic
• Finer textured and denser than their predecessors, turf-type tall fescues offer great year-round color.2007, Paul Boardway Tukey, The Organic Lawn Care Manual: A Natural, Low-maintenance ..., page 56. From the entry tall fescue
• What can be said, though, is that it contains more unplotted detail than its predecessors.2006 January, Evan Cory Horowitz, “Ulysses: Mired in the Universal”, in Modernism/modernity, volume 13, number 1. From the entry detailist
• The complaint further charges that "Respondent Allied, respondent Robbins, and Robbins' predecessor in interest, J.R.1967, FTC News Summary, page 9. From the entry webber
• Starmer's Tory predecessors Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss were identified as brat by 15 percent each of those asked.2024 August 13, Noah Keate, “It's official: Boris Johnson is brat”, in Politico, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2024. From the entry brat
• That’s how style works; the young and innovative distinguish themselves by breaking with the conventions of their predecessors.2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times. From the entry passé
• My predecessors generally preferred to live and work in the monastery proper, but I like the solitude of the caves.2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry archimandrite
• All this links Johnson firmly with his predecessors – Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May.[2019 December 14, Tim Bale, “The real Boris Johnson: one-nation Tory or raging populist?”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry one-nation conservatism
• Following the corruptive path blazed by White House predecessors, Mr.2007 January 28, Dorothy Samuels, “The George W. Bush Library: Scholarly Mecca or $500 Million Oxymoron?”, in New York Times. From the entry corruptive
• He was replaced by my predecessor, Barry Jones.2003, Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Representatives, page 21298. From the entry restand
• Today’s captains of the fast-food industry are no more contented simply to make billions of bucks than their corn-flakey predecessors were.2001, L[ester] Neil Smith, “A Rant for All Seasons”, in Lever Action: Essays on Liberty, Las Vegas, Nev.: Mountain Media, →ISBN, page 341. From the entry corn-flakey
• Unlike their antebellum predecessors, the new premillennialists were dispensationalists.2000, Vincent Crapanzano, Serving the Word: Literalism in America From the Pulpit to the Bench, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Church Age
• It is literally translated as “inheritee” or “predecessor.”[1995, Vicki L. Beyer, Keld Conradsen, “Translating Japanese Legal Documents into English: A Short Course”, in Marshall Morris, editor…. From the entry inheritee
• The ship self destructs, and the predecessors to the traffic lights and honey farms self-destruct in spectacular manners.1994 May 7, David Bell, “HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 1/3)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry ship
• About a year and a half ago, Schroeppel and Hickerson found a bunch of patterns with very small predecessor counts.1991 March 28, Bill Gosper, “on Life (and Death)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry goe
• President Reagan behaved like his predecessors: preaching free enterprise in Washington but playing sugar daddy on the north forty.1985 February 7, “Opinion”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2015. From the entry north forty
• Shumway, Professor of Germanic Philology and head of the German department, was just as staunch a Scandinavist as his predecessor.1937, A. J. Uppvall, “The Study of Scandinavian Languages and LIteratures at the University of Pennsylvania, 1895-1935: A Retrospect and a…. From the entry Scandinavist
• President Taft to-day had a pointed comment for the "new nationalism" that his predecessor has been launching in the West.1910 September 3, “Taft Is Not Pleased by Roosevelt Plan”, in The New York Times. From the entry pointed
• The "Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2" isn't much of a game, and - if its anything like its predecessor - lacks in replayability.2023 November 21, Spalls Hurgenson, “What To Buy in the Latest Steam Sale”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet), archived from the…. From the entry Mordorian
• A popular saying when Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao was in power was: "Policies do not go beyond Zhongnanhai," the leadership compound in central Beijing.2021 August 11, Andrew Galbraith, “Analysis: China regulatory storm tests nerves, limits of top-down policy”, in Reuters, archived from…. From the entry Zhongnanhai
• The citizens of India and Japan have elected nationalist leaders who many say they believe champion a more closed form of identity than their predecessors.2016 December 6, Francis Fukuyama, “The Dangers of Disruption”, in The New York Times. From the entry scrupulously
• Brown got further with the new jail than any of his predecessors because he could preach the touchy-feely gospel of anti-recidivism better than they could.2015, When Good Dogs Do Bad Things, Santa Barbara Independent. From the entry misdemeanorize

Meaning of predecessor

1. noun One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
2. noun A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
3. noun A vertex having a directed path to another vertex.

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How do you use predecessor in a sentence?

Predecessor is used as a noun. For example: “The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.”

What is a short sentence with predecessor?

“He was replaced by my predecessor, Barry Jones.”

What does predecessor mean?

Predecessor means one who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.