second-generation
Americanadjective
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being the second generation of a family to be born in a particular country.
the oldest son of second-generation Americans.
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being the native-born child of naturalized parents.
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being a revised or improved version of a product, system, service, etc..
Production has been increased with second-generation robots.
noun
Example Sentences
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But before that she was a cultural anthropology major and Fulbright scholar who studied cultural identity among second-generation North African women in France.
That includes 3,212 satellites for a second-generation system and 1,292 spacecraft that will focus on covering the Earth’s polar regions.
From MarketWatch
She abridges its plot, removing the second-generation narrative that bookends Brontë’s writing.
From Los Angeles Times
Gates posits a sympathy between immigrant and first- and second-generation Jewish Americans in the 20th century and disadvantaged Blacks, based on a common experience of oppression; Jewish newspapers used the word “pogrom” to describe violence against Blacks in the South.
From Los Angeles Times
Monday’s gains come just days after the Federal Communications Commission authorized SpaceX to deploy and operate up to 15,000 second-generation Starlink satellites to provide direct-to-cell connectivity around the world.
From MarketWatch
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