Gen X

noun

ˈjen-ˈeks

: generation x

Gen X managed to stretch adolescence beyond all previous limits: Its members started becoming adults earlier and finished becoming adults later.—

Jean M. Twenge

—often used before another noun

a Gen X celebrity

—often hyphenated in such use

… 'The Blair Witch Project,' a stealth blockbuster with clever Internet marketing and so much Gen-X appeal that it's spooking Hollywood.—

Newsweek

Gen Xer

ˈjen-ˈek-sər

noun

or Gen-Xer

plural Gen Xers or Gen-Xers

… only about 56 percent of high-school seniors in 2015 went out on dates; for Boomers and Gen Xers, the number was about 85 percent. —

Jean M. Twenge

Like many Gen-Xers, I remember childhood as an uncomplicated time when the only thing you had to worry about was being home by dark. —

Bethany Young Hardy

Examples of Gen X in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As a favorite hangout for retired and mainly boomer and Gen X workers from the planemaker’s nearby Everett plant, the place is a fount for up close and personal accounts of a once-fabled culture’s decline from the people who’ve lived it. —

Will Daniel, Fortune, 26 June 2024 The report, with nearly half of its respondents being Millennial, followed by Gen X and Gen Z employees, found a staggering increase of 28% in the number of people who plan to change jobs, compared to 19% during the Great Resignation in 2022. —

Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 24 June 2024 But did its wink-wink marketing to Gen X actually work? —

JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024 In fact, Gen X on average saved more of their annual pay than even what Fidelity recommends. —

Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 23 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for Gen X

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