- present tense form of generate (3rd person singular).
generates
Example Sentences
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The most famous are "lying flat", when people opt out of the rat race entirely, and "involution", a rather clunky term now commonly used to describe intense competition which generates little meaningful reward.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Amazon is an e-commerce platform, but it also generates about 10% of its revenue from advertising.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Manufacturing generates $382 billion a year for California and supports 1.24 million jobs, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
"For our experiments, we also rely on PSI's particle accelerator, which generates the world's most intense, continuous muon beams," says Soter.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
If there are exact locations in the brain that allow for the ability to hear or to breathe, is there a place that generates human social behavior?
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
