fifth-generation
Britishadjective
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He acknowledged IonQ’s commercial progress in the quarter, notably the sale of a fifth-generation Tempo computer to a South Korean research center.
From Barron's
"This deployment included thousands of service members from all branches, hundreds of advanced fourth- and fifth-generation fighters, dozens of refueling tankers, the Lincoln and Ford carrier strike group and their embarked air wings, sustained flow of munitions, fuel supplies."
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His mother, Betty, who died in 2021 at 88, was a fifth-generation California farmer and one of the first female competitive surfing champions in the world.
From Los Angeles Times
The fifth-generation farmer still wakes early each morning to tend to roughly 1,000 acres of corn and soybeans and 40 cattle.
"The fireworks industry has been passed down from generation to generation," said Li Shijie, a fifth-generation manager of Zhongzhou Fireworks in the southern city.
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