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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a generation older" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is older by a specific generational span, often in the context of comparing ages or experiences.
Example: "My father is a generation older than me, which gives him a different perspective on life."
Alternatives: "one generation senior" or "a generation ahead".
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The burial dated from around 834 but the ship used was a generation older.
(The jockey he displaced, Johnny Longden, a generation older, also died this year, on Valentine's Day).
I felt if I had been a generation older, what would I have done?
The demographics are increasingly against Sandilands, who is now a generation older than his typical listener.
Nowadays I'm at least a generation older than everyone I work with.
Holbrook is a generation older, but Lithgow is the more mature memoirist.
They are a generation older than the Shahs, in their early 30s, and their allegiance more thought through.
Jack — a generation older than the agent, going gray, trim physique, friendly demeanor — was a 1968 graduate of West Point.
There are now monuments to the achievement of artists just a generation older all over the United States.
"I like Gerhard Richter," Currin finally says, referring to the German painter who is a generation older.
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Franklin was a generation older--a founding grandfather--who died in 1790, just a year after the U.S. government got its start.
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