generations

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No apps or GPS - just a system passed down through generations of workers who know Mumbai's trains and streets instinctively.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Scientists believe these crocodiles likely traveled with ocean currents over generations, eventually establishing a population in the isolated islands of the Seychelles.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

They’re wearing not just the financial stress, but generations of expenses and expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

She also hopes this new work will inspire future generations of artists, and plans to bring her ArtCenter students to see the installation once it’s open.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Jackson did not go so far as to argue, as did southern apologists two or three generations later, that slavery was “a positive good.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis