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- noun informal A member of
Generation X .
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Now, I, a latter generation Gen-Xer, must pass down to my post-Millennial son some of the rules of engagement for a Black man in this society: 1 If the police stop you make sure you stop in a well-lit area and don't make any sudden moves.
Michael W. Waters: A Painful (Yet Familiar) Ritual Michael W. Waters 2011
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And I said that assuming one of these run-and-gun entrepreneurial companies, sort of like an either SpaceX or Orbital, gets the contract to build these capsules for NASA, it's almost the analogy of you've got a workplace where you've got a baby-boomer on one side, and that's NASA, and then you've got Gen-Xer on the other side, and that's one of these run-and-gun companies.
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I knew I was pushing the envelope to call her a Gen-Xer.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Solicitor General Lays an Egg 2010
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At 39, the Gen-Xer represents a new generation of Republican leaders.
Who's Afraid of Marco Rubio? Matthew Kaminski 2010
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And I said that assuming one of these run-and-gun entrepreneurial companies, sort of like an either SpaceX or Orbital, gets the contract to build these capsules for NASA, it's almost the analogy of you've got a workplace where you've got a baby-boomer on one side, and that's NASA, and then you've got Gen-Xer on the other side, and that's one of these run-and-gun companies.
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Now, I, a latter generation Gen-Xer, must pass down to my post-Millennial son some of the rules of engagement for a Black man in this society: 1 If the police stop you make sure you stop in a well-lit area and don't make any sudden moves.
Michael W. Waters: A Painful (Yet Familiar) Ritual Michael W. Waters 2011
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And I said that assuming one of these run-and-gun entrepreneurial companies, sort of like an either SpaceX or Orbital, gets the contract to build these capsules for NASA, it's almost the analogy of you've got a workplace where you've got a baby-boomer on one side, and that's NASA, and then you've got Gen-Xer on the other side, and that's one of these run-and-gun companies.
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(The Gen-Xer in me suggests: Maybe that will help Jann Wenner sell a few more copies of his no-longer-revolutionary-at-all magazine.)
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(The Gen-Xer in me suggests: Maybe that will help Jann Wenner sell a few more copies of his no-longer-revolutionary-at-all magazine.)
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Don't know why, maybe it's the us vs. them Gen-Xer in me.
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