Sentence examples for a great generation from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a great generation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of people, typically from a specific time period, who are considered to have made significant contributions or achievements.
Example: "The leaders of the civil rights movement are often regarded as a great generation that fought for equality and justice."
Alternatives: "an exceptional generation" or "a remarkable generation".

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"That was a great generation".

A great generation, like in Hungary in the 1950s.

My father was the last president of a great generation.

"Your generation of Americans can be a great generation".

Do you feel like the last of a great generation of commentators?

They were a great generation, but so were the men who served in Vietnam.

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As for the generational shift, we've gone from a Greatest Generation that believed in save and invest for the future to a Baby Boomer generation that believed in borrow and spend for today.

Both countries have a Greatest Generation that is pitted against a Baby Boomer Generation.

With every death of a Greatest Generation member, their halo grows, and the boomer rep shrivels a little more.

These results should be unsurprising: there was a greatest generation but not a politest, a Gilded Age but no Era of Total Kindness.

"It's extremely valuable for its cathartic possibilities, and I hope it will give a voice to what's going to be, in my opinion, a greater generation than the one Tom Brokaw wrote about".

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