generation

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If that’s what you have to do, it sounds like your family might not collectively be able to afford to keep the house for the next generation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

So many moments, so many stories that will be told and retold among this generation of Dodgers fans and passed down to the next.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

“A generation ago, all this collected data, somebody would have had to go through it. Somebody would have had to read it and analyze it, and make inferences from it,” Guariglia said.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Though their obsessions with moisturizers and eyebrow grooming seem pretty girlie to someone of my generation, looksmaxxing is rooted in objectification.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Used to be one generation, now it’s two, three generations a year.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes