generations
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"I'm not naïve. I know there are a lot of more militant voices from young generations," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
That stuffed black-and-white dog is a bridge between my son and my dad, two generations who never met.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
“The cultural significance of heirlooms—their story, weaved through generations of family grafting and genealogy—is all fine and dandy, but hasn’t science rendered these older apple varieties obsolete?”
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026
Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, collectively known as "Los Javis," have wowed critics and filmgoers with their sweeping queer epic telling the interconnected stories of three gay men over multiple generations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
His grandchildren would inherit a quarter; his great-grandchildren, an eighth; his great-great-grandchildren, one-sixteenth, and so forth—until his genetic essence had been diluted, in just a few generations, into complete oblivion.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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