generations
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West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey paid tribute to Rockefeller's decades of service, saying he had left "a lasting mark on the lives of generations of West Virginians."
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
“But this generation has their eye on the power of human creativity in a way that I’m not sure any of us in other generations have been so attuned to.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
"We did it!" shouted Chuck Schmidt, 76, hugging a younger voter as he credited upcoming generations with the party's success.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
They often encompass a character’s entire life, or follow the sliding fortunes of generations of a family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The tables made it possible to calculate the positions of the planets to an accuracy thirty times better than the tables Copernicus had compiled, and remained the standard used for generations.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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