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[jen-uh-rayt] / ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪt /


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Some people appear to generate relatively large amounts, while others produce very little.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

But the economy doesn’t need to generate as many jobs as it used to just to keep the labor market steady.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

This is a moment of pain for investors holding bonds or shares of bond funds, but also one of opportunity for investors who want to generate income.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

This year, it’s projected to generate $11.1 billion, according to market expectations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

He wanted retail shops on the first floor, to generate income and allow him to employ as many women as possible; apartments would fill the second and third.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Input tokens cover what a user submits in a query, while output tokens represent what the model generates in response.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Urolithin A has attracted growing interest in recent years because of its links to healthy aging and mitochondrial function, a process in the body which generates energy.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

The most famous are "lying flat", when people opt out of the rat race entirely, and "involution", a rather clunky term now commonly used to describe intense competition which generates little meaningful reward.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Manufacturing generates $382 billion a year for California and supports 1.24 million jobs, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

If there are exact locations in the brain that allow for the ability to hear or to breathe, is there a place that generates human social behavior?

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Zircon crystals can also preserve microscopic structures created by the intense pressures generated during an impact.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

It’s not that I’m offended by the idea of generated art; it’s just that it bores me.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Watching footballers who have six-packs is already a body-image influence, she said, let alone being then shown AI generated people who are unrealistic.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The announcement was a shock to many mathematicians and generated much soul-searching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The only thing I can think of that’s worse than getting stuck on Greatest Hits or Top 40 is pushing a button and generating “infinite personalized music” with no human influence.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Gut bacteria produce the compound while generating energy from histidine, an amino acid that is essential for human health and found in many foods, particularly foods rich in protein.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Case Keenum reads the defense and gets the ball out fast; coach Ben Johnson’s offense is strong, and the defense is generating turnovers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The government has defended regulated hunting as one way of managing the elephant population and human-wildlife conflict while generating income for communities.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The individual creators of this property— writers, musicians, artists—can and will find alternative means of generating income, they’re convinced.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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