baby boomer

noun

: a person born during a period of time in which there is a marked rise in a population's birth rate : a person born during a baby boom

especially : a person born in the U.S. following the end of World War II (usually considered to be in the years from 1946 to 1964)

The viewer is older, an aging baby boomer whose '60s activism has been lost among the years. —

Gary D. Christenson

Industry experts predict that reverse mortgages will play an increasingly important role in the coming years as some 70 million baby boomers hit their 60s—often with a lot less saved than they'd hoped. —

Cybele Weisser

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More and more adults are joining the sport, especially as baby boomers hit retirement age, with more leisure time and disposable income. —

R. Scott Rappold, The Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2024 Despite more baby boomers becoming retirement age, the Social Security Administration has seen a drop in beneficiaries of certain kinds of Social Security payments each month. —

Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024 This sentiment was highest among millennials (69%) and lowest for baby boomers (49%). —

Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024 Even postwar baby boomers recall Pearl Harbor vividly because of the annual documentary specials about the battle, which started when Japanese fighter pilots surprised the U.S. fleet in Hawaii. —

Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 1 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for baby boomer