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first-generation

[furst-jen-uh-rey-shuhn]

adjective

  1. being the first generation of a family to be born in a particular country.

  2. being a naturalized citizen of a particular country; immigrant.

    the child of first-generation Americans.



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Iran said it would respond to the resolution by setting up a new uranium enrichment facility at a "secure location" and by replacing first-generation centrifuges used to enrich uranium with more advanced, sixth-generation machines at the Fordo enrichment plant.

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Quinae Austin is a first-generation college student and mother from South Central Los Angeles.

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And — and this is maybe a bit of a surprise — I feel a deep sense of responsibility to older generations who have fought for the rights that made it possible for me to get access to that birth control, which was not a given, to become the first of my family, to go to college as a first-generation American, someone raised by a single mom.

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As an Iranian-American child of first-generation immigrants, she witnessed the financial control her father exerted over his family.

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But his prior claims about vaccine safety have made clear that he’s referring not only to first-generation vaccines for diseases, but also boosters and expanded formulations.

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