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- noun Plural of
generation .
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Examples
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Sometimes, we do not even appear to understand what we are doing to future generations, and how much we owe to previous generations.
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Sometimes, we do not even appear to understand what we are doing to future generations, and how much we owe to previous generations.
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Friday morning, word on how fast the U.S. economy shrunk this spring will cross financial wires - and with it, new clarity on whether the deepest recession in generations is winding down.
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Your sudden care for future generations is very heartwarming, but where were you for the last 8 years?
Obama adviser: Protesters wrong about health-care reform 2009
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Although many are scared, we need to find strength and courage in one another and stand firm for change, for the tipping point of our generations is now.
Sources: White House considers drafting health care bill 2009
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My book, which chronicles only six generations, is the tip of this family iceberg.
A Conversation with Nomi Eve, author of The Family Orchard 2010
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Feeling superiority over past generations is a form of self congratulation that
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One of the watersheds between generations is the people who remember the sound of that “ching!” when you rolled over the hose on the station plaza that told an attendant someone was waiting at the pump.
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Feeling superiority over past generations is a form of self congratulation that
Weblogs 2009
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Within generations, today I'm paying money to today's retired people w/the supposed promise of receiving money when I'm retired.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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