generation
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But can it inspire a new generation of car dreamers, especially at a time when some data indicates younger audiences may be holding off on a car purchase?
From Los Angeles Times
"We're making roughly 20 tonnes of caramel a day," says Stuart Louden, the firm's engineering and transport manager, and the fifth generation of the Tunnock family to work at the business.
From BBC
They had arrived as immigrants in New York a generation earlier, and randomly picked a trade that has kept the family in business for well over a century.
Colonists, Mr. Shalev writes, sought “a close knowledge of and relationship with the sky—exponentially closer than that of later generations.”
A full generation of White House advisers decided that image was static and inert, that a president looks more dynamic if he’s standing, with long halls or mantles behind him.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.