preceding generation

collocation in English

meaningsofprecedingandgeneration

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preceding
adjective[before noun]
uk
/prɪˈsiː.dɪŋ/us
/priːˈsiː.dɪŋ/
existing or happening before someone ...
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generation
noun
uk
/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
all the people of about the same age within a society or within a ...
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(Definition ofprecedingandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpreceding generation

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The development of the larvae was distinctly prolonged, as in theprecedinggeneration.
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The average duration of development for the whole generation was 47 days, as in theprecedinggeneration.
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In contradistinction to theprecedinggenerationthe development was completely active and the duration only slightly longer than in summer.
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There is no point at which we can say 'now there has been a radical break from the language of theprecedinggeneration'.
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Of course, in their efforts to debunk the reputation of theprecedinggeneration, female critics were not alone.
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Some had inherited a business from theprecedinggeneration, and many explicitly said that their normative views echoed their parents' values of both independence and self-sufficiency.
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It is often regarded as the extent to which the generation of daughters replaces theprecedinggenerationof females.
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The county had come in a precarious political situation during the reign of theprecedinggeneration.
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In his opinion, class-war the ideal which had inspired the writers belonging to theprecedinggeneration had almost lost its relevance by the time he entered the literary career.
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All of these changes greatly simplified operation and made radio a household appliance that even a small child could operate, instead of the highly-skilled hobbyists of the briefprecedinggeneration.
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A person thus gets to know the names of six generations (threeprecedinggeneration, his own and two succeeding generations -- his sons and grandsons) in his life, reaffirming lineage ties.
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With few traditions, each generation exhibites attitudes and behaviors that conservative segments of preceding generations uneasily assimilate.
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Preceding generations were focused around a journalistic approach based on eyewitness reports.
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Unlike preceding generations, four- and six-cylinder versions now shared a front end of the same length.
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They trace the evolution of society from a tradition-directed culture, one that moved in a direction defined by preceding generations.
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The names in preceding generations, however, become more unusual, and the more authoritative sources begin to contradict each other.
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Three preceding generations of his family had also served in the state legislature.
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They may have descended collaterally, along the lines of purely mental suggestion by virtue of mere social contact with preceding generations.
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A notable element of the show was that the artists were, or would be, linked with higher education as students, professors, or botha change from the preceding generations.
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