- plural of generation.
generations
Example Sentences
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Species that live this way form colonies containing overlapping generations, cooperate in raising young and divide reproductive responsibilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
If previous generations often went to bars because that’s simply where people went, Gen Z seems more likely to ask a different question first.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The company’s lighter flash models power AI Overviews and AI Mode, which allow search-engine users to perform complex queries in natural language — far surpassing the keyword matching and ranking techniques of previous generations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Yet to gain admission to the country club, Bezos would have to win over the longtime members whose roots often went back generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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
