generation
Example Sentences
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The facilities will operate as what the companies on Monday called flexible energy assets, supporting power grids by modulating consumption and leveraging on-site generation and storage.
Routine vaccinations against the strain only began to be rolled out in 2015, meaning the current generation of students and others in their late teens are not protected.
From BBC
"This case is probably going to be the most important constitutional case in a generation," said Christine Van Geyn, executive director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation.
From BBC
As the last of the baby boomer generation edge into retirement there are not enough young Germans to replace them, due to a low birth rate.
From BBC
"Maybe we should just leave people to carry on living the way they have for generations."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.