generation

Example Sentences

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It’s a résumé that already is challenging the next generation of national team players.

From Los Angeles Times

This was the generation that went home to build the rules-based international order, because they had learned the hard way what a system without rules, without laws, can lead to.

From BBC

Over the last generation, several assumptions undergirded international relations and commerce.

From The Wall Street Journal

And for Fanning, the roles are a thrilling further indication of her talents, establishing her as one of the most versatile actors of her generation — whether she wins the Oscar in March or not.

From Salon

But Jareth and “Labyrinth” introduced a new generation to the magnitude of his bewildering, potent artistic sorcery.

From Salon