generations

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For the generations who were just a few years too late to have experienced Beatlemania, this was their first chance to rep their team in real time.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2026

Merz added that the proposals aim to meet "two goals: pensions remain secure, and the burdens are distributed fairly across all segments of society and across all generations".

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

But there’s also some indication that the challenges young men currently face in finding paid employment may be pushing them towards caregiving in higher numbers than previous generations.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

“For generations, it provided a common stock of references and allusions, rivaled only by Shakespeare in this respect,” the late writer Christopher Hitchens wrote in a 2011 essay on the King James Version.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

Farmers had been using this phenomenon for millennia—breeding and interbreeding animals to produce natural variants, and selecting these variants over multiple generations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee