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Si·lent Gen·er·a·tion

noun
- 1. the generation of people born before that of the baby boomers (roughly from the mid 1920s to the mid 1940s), perceived to tend towards conformism or restraint in their outlook and behavior: "even when the Silent Generation was young, their motto was “waste not, want not”"
Word Origin 1951: coined in an article in Time magazine.
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Cohort succeeding the Greatest Generation, born from 1928 to 1945.
The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. By this definition and U.S. Census data, there were 23 million Silents in the United States as of 2019. Wikipedia
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