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Example sentences for: first-generation

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Kazin was different from many first-generation intellectuals who sailed into American high culture and sent for their past only long after they had established themselves, like immigrants bringing over the rest of the family.
On Oct. 23, a company called NuvoMedia rolled out the first, first-generation digital reading device, a $500 appliance called the Rocket eBook.
The bioelectronic detection platform described here includes disposable DNA chips and laboratory-based electronic readers and is a first-generation system that ultimately will facilitate the development of relatively low cost, arrayed nucleic acid-based tests.
The first-generation Bronfman was entrepreneurial and ruthless.
I agree with these predictions in two respects: that the degree of life extension achieved by first-generation drugs of this sort may well approach the (currently unknown) amount elicitable by caloric restriction itself in humans, and that it is unlikely to be much exceeded by later drugs that work the same way.