Predecessor in example sentence

Two decades ago, Donald Langevoort, now a law professor at Georgetown, showed that major bankers – indeed, the leaders of First National City, the predecessor to Weill’s Citibank – proposed Glass-Steagall in lieu of deposit insurance.

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Licinia fully understands now why her predecessor was buried alive.

Here's the Architecture Machine Group, the predecessor of the Media Lab, in 1981.

And when I first came across it in the early '90s, I thought my predecessor, Malcolm Dyson and Bob Wright, had really taken leave of their senses, and I’ll explain to you why this was the case.

He did not, happily, follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, and tell us to just go shopping.

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