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Found ならぬ in the following sentence and am unsure of what it's meaning is.
Also would be nice if anyone provided a total translation for the whole
sentence for increased clarity.

「深夜勤帯にゆとり世代ならぬさとり世代の大型新人がやってきました。」

I've read it as something along the lines of "In our employee group, if
they(relating to another employee who is quoting a philosopher) aren't a
yutorisedai(person from the more lax Japanese schooling system in the
1980s-2000s), they must've been the satorisedai(generation in which most
people gave up their ambitions due to japan's economy at the time) I had such
high hopes of who said that.
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What is ならぬ Ｍeaning in this sentence?
As you understand, it means negation.

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> [ならぬ](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89%E3%81%AC/#jn-165280)
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> ［連語］《「ぬ」は打消しの助動詞「ず」の連体形》 **…でない** 。「一方 (ひとかた) ―ご指導」「ただ―事態」

なら comes from the archaic なり (to be).

Thus AならぬB means _not A but B_. Usually, A is something widely known and B is
something new (+ perhaps A and B have similar sounds or B is named in a
similar fashion to A). In your case, ゆとり世代 has been a cliche to refer to
younger generation but now さとり世代 is even younger and the naming is clearly
related.
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