generation
Example Sentences
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“The older generation says, ‘Before we were among ourselves, a small town on the lake.’”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The 1994 tournament also gave birth to Major League Soccer, the largest first-division league in the world, and endowed a foundation that has funded grassroots soccer development for more than a generation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Rice is best known as one of the world's most important food crops, but scientists have now shown it could also help inspire a new generation of smart materials.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
“Scary Movie” would, apparently, be a return to the button-pushing, tasteless humor that defined a generation but was now outmoded by wokeness.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
But the conflict within the American revolutionary generation remained a passionate yet bloodless affair in which the energies released by national independence did not devour its own children.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing generation
The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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