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===Generational cuspers=== People born in the latter half of the Baby Boom, from the early 1960s to the early years of Generation X, are sometimes called [[Generation Jones]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Seigle|first=Greg|date=6 April 2000|title=Some Call It 'Jones'|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/52287975.html?dids=52287975:52287975&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT|access-date=18 February 2007|archive-date=23 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023005649/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/52287975.html?dids=52287975:52287975&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT|url-status=dead}}</ref> People born in the Generation X / millennial [[Cusper|cusp]] years of the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s are sometimes called [[Xennials]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Ryan W. |date=20 December 2018 |title=Are you a Xennial? How to tell if you're the microgeneration between Gen X and Millennial |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/20/xennials-millennials-generation-x-microgeneration/2369230002/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801093415/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/20/xennials-millennials-generation-x-microgeneration/2369230002/ |archive-date=1 August 2019 |access-date=13 August 2019 |work=USA Today}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Stankorb |first=Sarah |date=25 September 2014 |title=Reasonable People Disagree about the Post-Gen X, Pre-Millennial Generation |url=http://magazine.good.is/articles/generation-xennials |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114145050/https://magazine.good.is/articles/generation-xennials |archive-date=14 January 2016 |access-date=28 March 2016 |newspaper=Huffington Post}}</ref> Other names include the ''Star Wars'' Generation,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/millennial-xennial-or-generation-x-which-generation-do-you-relate-to-most/67-486275265 |title=Millennial, Xennial or Generation X: Which generation do you relate to most? |last=Hoar |first=Lauren |date=2017-10-26 |publisher=[[WTSP]] |access-date=2024-05-30 |quote=Some experts have called Xennials, the 'Star Wars generation', because 1977 to 1983 was the timeframe of the original Star Wars trilogy.}}</ref> Generation Catalano,<ref>{{cite news |last=Shafrir |first=Doree |date=24 October 2011 |title=Generation Catalano |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2011/10/generation_catalano_the_generation_stuck_between_gen_x_and_the_m.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713084505/http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2011/10/generation_catalano_the_generation_stuck_between_gen_x_and_the_m.html |archive-date=13 July 2014 |access-date=26 June 2014 |newspaper=Slate}}</ref> and the ''[[The Oregon Trail (series)|Oregon Trail]]'' Generation.<ref name="Huffington1">{{cite news |last=Garvey |first=Ana |date=25 May 2015 |title=The Biggest (And Best) Difference Between Millennial and My Generation |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-garvey/the-biggest-and-best-difference-between-millennials_b_7438370.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323115224/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-garvey/the-biggest-and-best-difference-between-millennials_b_7438370.html |archive-date=23 March 2016 |access-date=28 March 2016 |newspaper=Huffington Post}}</ref> These "microgenerations" share characteristics of both generations.
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