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Examples of baby boom in a Sentence
There was a baby boom in the U.S. after World War II.
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Companies that once minted money selling baby formula to feed a baby boom are now making shakes with calcium and selenium for older adults with brittle bones.
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Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
This messaging is now aimed straight at the baby boom, a generation identified strongly with youth.
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
These began spiking when the baby boom generation started drawing heavily from these programs around 2010.
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Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 17 Mar. 2024
While a majority of the Senate is still from the baby boom generation, Gen X membership in the House now exceeds that of boomers for the first time: More than 180 representatives are from Gen X, and 170 are boomers.
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Joe Murphy, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025
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Word History
First Known Use
1879, in the meaning defined above
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“Baby boom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baby%20boom. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
baby boom
noun
: a marked rise in a birthrate (as in the U.S. after World War II)
baby boomer
noun
ˈbü-mər
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Nglish: Translation of baby boom for Spanish Speakers
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