generations
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His son, Ian, said "It is a fitting tribute not only to my father's pioneering achievements, but also to the generations of engineers, designers and aviators who helped shape Britain's world-leading contribution to aviation."
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Bacteria that survive a drug can reproduce and pass their resistance to future generations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Millennial and Gen Z customers, one respondent said, were spending more money on their pets than older generations.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
For generations, these documents were little more than family heirlooms that served as painful reminders of fortunes lost after the revolution led by Fidel Castro’s bearded guerrillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Not even twenty minutes had passed after we’d scarfed down the entire plate of cookies, when Tamika’s gut interrupted my explanation of mutations in DNA over thousands of generations to create a new species.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
