generations

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His decision, at age 26, to keep a diary from the first day of 1660 was fortuitous, giving generations an insight into the life of that era’s London well-to-do.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

That phrase has become a mantra for the following generations of players - and it will be particularly pertinent on Friday at the French Open.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

“Vinyl is not like a single-use plastic; we don’t throw it away after one listen. We treasure it, we pass it on through generations, and people have a real connection with it,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

For generations, our nation’s reigning political culture has celebrated armed self-defense as a fundamental right.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026

But as Darbishire analyzed his own first-generation hybrids, and the hybrid-hybrid crosses, the pattern was clear: the data could only be explained by Mendelian inheritance, with indivisible traits moving vertically across the generations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee