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generation

Definition for generation

noun as in creation, production

noun as in age group

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cohort, contemporaries, peers

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age, crop, microgeneration

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Beat Generation, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, Generation A, Generation X, Generation Y, Generation Z, Lost Generation, Millennials, Silent Generation, Xennials, baby boomers, boomers, sandwich generation

noun as in period of time between age groups

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day, era, period, time

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decades, epoch, years

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stage

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Despite the risks of fire, water damage, or simply being misplaced, it's still a genuinely durable way of passing down memories through the generations.

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The pride in shared roots, albeit generations apart, took a little bit of sting off his home run, which made the score a humiliating 11-2.

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Officials hope that preserving the church as a community hub will help give the city new life, while encouraging future generations to stay.

Fifty years from now, capitalism will continue to flourish in the U.S., rewarding an even broader and more diverse generation of entrepreneurs.

“This conversation is part of frankly many generations of conversations about who should have access to the white-collar economy,” said Jeffries, whose organization’s schools serve mostly low-income Black and Hispanic students.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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