Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to generation.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or changing over
generations .
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- adjective of or relating to a generation
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Examples
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STRAUSS: You see, what this shows is what we call the generational diagonal.
Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069 1991
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HOWE: To come back to this whole question of reconstructing history along what we call the generational diagonal -- following the same group through time -- you know, you can read a lot of books, and some of them very fine books, written about the history of childhood.
Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069 1991
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Packer says part of that reaction to Sept. 11 is what he calls "generational inferiority."
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Schlapobersky told me it was likely my father had been the subject of what he calls the generational transmission of trauma; violence was handed down to him.
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The centerpiece of Bius 'platform is ending what he calls generational welfare, the continual support of generations of families on welfare.
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Schlapobersky told me it was likely my father had been the subject of what he calls the generational transmission of trauma; violence was handed down to him.
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Jackson attributed this attitude to what he described as a generational shift.
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Even clearer evidence of a long-term generational shift in favor of religious intermarriage comes from a pair of surveys in 1982 and 1990 summarized in Figure 5.6 that asked “how important are shared religious beliefs to a successful marriage?”
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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- Putting us in generational debt within a decade!! on and on and on
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When I said transformational, I meant simply would take us past a certain generational battle.
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