Predecessor in example sentence

The official minutes of the meeting make no reference to the entire discussion of the inflation target, which took up several hours, and the FOMC never formally announced its 2% target for annual inflation until Chairman Ben Bernanke, Yellen’s predecessor, finally did so in 2012.

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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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