My predecessors had asked their questions of nature with genuine curiosity and awaited her reply.
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Predecessors
Synonyms for "predecessors" (15 found)
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5 entriesearlier predecessorshistorical predecessorsimmediate predecessorspredecessors and successorspredecessors in office
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Trump is following in the footsteps of his predecessors as far as war in the Middle East is concerned.
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First, we must acknowledge the errors made by our predecessors.
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The predecessors of the Russian Baptists are the Molokans, who massively converted to Baptism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, so Russian Baptists are significantly different from European and American Baptists.
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