: a marked rise in birth rate (as in the U.S. following the end of World War II)
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There was a baby boom in the U.S. after World War II.
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When the asylum system was set up, in 1951, many of the most advanced countries in the world were experiencing a baby boom.—Amy Pope, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 However, when the war ended and soldiers returned home, starting families and creating the baby boom of the late 1940s and ’50s, a subsequent snow globe boom took hold.—Erik Trinidad, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024 The baby boom refers to those born within an eighteen-year span, yet there was a twenty-eight-year run of boomer Presidents, broken only by Joe Biden, a pre-boomer.—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 His music came at a time when the nation's baby boom was coming of age.—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for baby boom
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