Collocations for "generation"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "generation" in context.
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generation
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the generation of [punk rock, automobiles]
- from generation to generation
- we're definitely from a different generation
- we're from the same generation!
- a generation in history
- the [baby boomer, millennial] generation
- the generation that [saw, witnessed, invented]
- a generation [marked, characterized, dogged] by
- the [younger, older] generation
- must be [protected, nurtured] for future generations
- the so-called ["lost", "silent"] generation
- the next generation of [phones, devices]
- the generation of [income, electricity, information]
- generation and [transmission, distribution]
- the generation of [gases, electricity, power, energy]
- the generation of [renewable, wind, sustainable] energy
- the generation of [ideas, theories, concepts, notions]
- bridge the generation gap
- a [fourth] -generation [device, program]
- a [third] -generation [Indian, immigrant]
- next-generation [phone, headsets, devices]
- that's some next-generation stuff (right there)!
- has a generation capacity of
'generation' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):