once-in-a-generation

English

Adjective

once-in-a-generation (not comparable)

  1. Very rare; likely to happen only once in a given generation.
    • 2024 November 19, Samantha Delouya and Julia Vargas Jones, “Here’s how mass deportations could change the housing market”, in CNN[1]:
      Trump has said that undocumented immigrants share the blame for America’s once-in-a-generation home affordability crisis, but the president-elect’s deportation plans may backfire, driving up the cost of homebuying even further.

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