generation
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Tinubu promises to increase available electricity generation towards 10,000MW.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission says the country had installed generation capacity of 13,625MW at the end of 2024, but generated an average of just 4,223MW during the year.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The prospect of an AI slowdown is tricky for Bloom, which has staked its future on providing on-site power generation through fuel cells and other means.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
Few actors of her generation have moved as comfortably between the machinery of blockbuster filmmaking and the more unpredictable corners of independent cinema.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
“Unfortunately,” Darkness said, “your generation is less concerned with learning the stories as well as sharing them, and more concerned with modern conveniences. As such, we are losing our memories.”
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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"A lot of people don't understand what's involved in looking after a collection and making sure that it's there for future generations to be able to access and see," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
In the standard cosmological model, the Universe was approximately 300 million years old during the period known as cosmic dawn, when the first generations of stars and galaxies were emerging.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
Beyond the film’s immediate drama, Gray says Johansson was deeply curious about the generations of Jewish immigrant history that shaped Hester’s family and their aspirations for a better life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
First we visit Lakeside Memorial Cemetery in Holly, Mich., where my parents, my sister and generations of my family are interred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
He had the square, handsome face of his father, the porcelain complexion of his mother, and the dense overhang of eyebrows that ran in the Darwin family over generations.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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