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• second-generation
  second-generation

  adjective

  being the second generation of a family to be born in a particular country.
• second generation
  second generation

  noun

  offspring of parents born in a given country

second-generation

American  

[sek-uhnd-jen-uh-ray-shuhn] / ˈsɛk əndˌdʒɛn əˈreɪ ʃən /

adjective

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

   the oldest son of second-generation Americans.

2. being the native-born child of naturalized parents.

3. being a revised or improved version of a product, system, service, etc..

   Production has been increased with second-generation robots.

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second generation British  

noun

1. offspring of parents born in a given country

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1. of an improved or refined stage of development in manufacture

   a second-generation robot

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Nearly a decade after Tesla first announced its second-generation Roadster, the company debuted the car in a flashy demo that seemed to challenge the laws of physics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

A second-generation musician whose father Robert earned a respectable living as a violinist and teacher in the family’s native Dublin, Field shows evidence of budding talent while still a toddler.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The company has said the satellites offer roughly 10 times better downlink capacity and about 22 times better uplink capacity from its second-generation satellites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Yet their return has drawn a striking mix of original second-generation fans and younger Gen Z listeners who were barely born when the group debuted.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

We have second-generation motion detectors; they only trigger if the moving object is large enough to be a human being—which means someone has hopped our fence.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Like many immigrant communities, such as Irish and Italians in the early 20th century, the second generation is doing much better economically than their parents.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

"I simply want to measure, for the first time, whether the equivalence between gravitational and inertial mass also applies to the second generation of particles -- this alone is quite an inspiring piece of work."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Notably two devices aren’t expected to be on the menu: the base model iPhone, along with the second generation of the iPhone Air, which are expected next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"I think the reason I really came back was those youngsters hanging about the street with no future. It was the second generation who were being lost to the community," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

White flowers vanished in the second generation, the hybrids, only to reemerge in some members of the third.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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