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generation

[jen-uh-ray-shuhn] / ˌdʒɛn əˈreɪ ʃən /


NOUN
age group
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
age crop microgeneration
WEAK
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
period of time between age groups
Synonyms


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Beyond challenging existing theories, the study demonstrates the power of a new generation of imaging technology.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

A new generation has learned to live frugally and earn money in foreign countries so their children can be educated abroad.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

As is often the case, when handed the keys to a successful business, the next generation simply is incapable of continuing its success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

But inside the labs, researchers could see that the next generation of models wouldn’t have any trouble computing the number of letters in fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

And my dad adds, “Yes. You and your generation give us hope for a better future, Paloma.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

The silverware that had been in the family for generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 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

But, the author tells us, it was Bell, through Holmes’s creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, who would inspire generations of real-life forensic detectives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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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