succeeding generation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsucceedandgeneration
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succeed
verb
uk/səkˈsiːd/us/səkˈsiːd/
If you succeed, you achieve something that you have been aiming for, and if a plan or piece of work succeeds, it has the results that ...
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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 ofsucceedandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsucceeding generation
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But some individuals manage to ascend in this period as well, accruing status for thesucceedinggeneration.
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The process of teaching and interpretation goes on with eachsucceedinggeneration.
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Grandparents, their parents and their grandchildren were followed up five times, and members of thesucceedinggenerationwere added as they were born.
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Second, all the verb-second languages are relatively stable, and the linguistic composition does not vary significantly over 30 generations, eachsucceedinggenerationconverging on the same parameter settings.
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Within eachsucceedinggenerationpsychologists have initiated isolated efforts to champion particular research methods or strategies aimed at overcoming one or more of the paradigm's perceived inadequacies.
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A specific mode of arbovirus persistence in the vector population is via vertical transmission in which virus from the infected female is transmitted via the egg to thesucceedinggeneration.
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More still needs to be done to remove the threat from asucceedinggenerationof owners.
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That sort of thing has been heard in every generation, and will be heard in everysucceedinggeneration.
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I am glad to see, however, that eachsucceedinggenerationof women is less willing to put up with this situation.
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It is very difficult for asucceedinggenerationto learn from the experience of its predecessors.
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Eachsucceedinggenerationdepends on its knowledge, skills, adaptability and character to maintain the influence of our country in the affairs of the world.
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It is, he said, the duty of eachsucceedinggenerationto ensure that the sacred obligations of the treaties are respected.
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It is we who have the responsibility, we and the immediatelysucceedinggeneration.
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They are the tangible legacy of eachsucceedinggeneration.
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It is our duty and our obligation to see that thatsucceedinggenerationgets every chance that we can give it.
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It has had to be faced and overcome by everysucceedinggeneration.
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Thesucceedinggenerationmight appear before the lapse of thirty years—very easily so.
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The shared experience of proximity, ideas, values and historical interaction cannot be condensed into a simple formula and is subject to review by eachsucceedinggeneration.
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Does this mean that eachsucceedinggenerationmust struggle to find his characteristic and essential worth?
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Consequently, it is a valuable inheritance to eachsucceedinggeneration.
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