generations
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Nearly two-thirds of people ages 18 to 29 surveyed by the Urban Institute say their generation faces tougher economic circumstances than the generations that came before them.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
She added: “We are all grappling with how something so devastating could happen at a place that has given generations of families such happy memories.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Territorial acquisition was no longer necessary to achieve the objectives that earlier generations had pursued through expansion.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
This complexity may help explain why bacterial blotch has persisted for generations despite efforts to manage it.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Jackson did not go so far as to argue, as did southern apologists two or three generations later, that slavery was “a positive good.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
