How to Use baby boomer in a Sentence

baby boomer

noun
  • Why is Portland so low, in the 47th spot, on the baby boomer list?
    oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2022
  • So too did the death of uber baby boomer Michael Lang, 77, who came up with Woodstock.
    David Colton, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Redfin said baby boomers are most likely to stay in homes the longest.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • For baby boomers, there might never be a better time to sell.
    Justin Lahart, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • That figure was 10% for millenials, 6% for Gen X, and 4% for baby boomers.
    Julie Moreau, NBC News, 1 June 2023
  • Smead recalls his own experience as a baby boomer in the 22 to 40-year-old age range.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 18 July 2022
  • All of the baby boomers and some of the millennials came up in that culture of partnership.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The business grew over the coming decades, in part because of the ascending influence of the baby boomers.
    Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • What a baby boomer might shake off, a millennial might take to heart and vice versa.
    Michael Kurland, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • The low unemployment rate could be a cause, the study says, in addition to the retirement of baby boomers.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
  • Millennials surveyed expressed this the most (60%), compared to less than a third of baby boomers who feel the same.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
  • For baby boomers in first blossom, the future was about freedom, a hope that is often expressed through fashion.
    Laura Jacobs, wsj.com, 13 May 2023
  • That’s the second-oldest age in four decades of NAR’s data—second only to last year’s 36—and higher than when many baby boomers bought their first homes.
    Bysydney Lake, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, late baby boomers offer a template for the way a big sub-generation moves through the economy.
    Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • But according to a 2022 survey from Gallup, baby boomers have the lowest levels of burnout and the highest engagement at work.
    Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Read full article The trend can be a little hard to see because, as baby boomers have aged, the number of people using Medicare has grown.
    Alicia Parlapiano, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But despite the slight uptick in gig work, BofA data shows their credit and debit spending growth is still slower than that of baby boomers.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • This could very well be the case for younger baby boomers who have reached retirement age, but might not feel financially secure enough to retire.
    Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Credit baby boomers, feminism, the fitness movement, Eileen Fisher or even the rise in Botox and cosmetic surgery; 60 is no longer the beginning of the end.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The youngest baby boomers, born in the era that spawned Beatlemania, face a looming retirement crisis, researchers have found.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024
  • People who ate a lot of beef were more likely to be male and aged 50 to 65—roughly correlating with the baby boomer generation.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Today, it can be seen neatly tucked into khaki trousers or styled as an A-line dress on millennials and baby boomers alike.
    Raksha Vasudevan, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
  • Finally, some workers may be counted more than once, like baby boomers who retired because of long Covid.
    Michael Sasso, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • And many at-risk people are unaware of the threat, including baby boomers who were infected long before the virus had been identified.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Why wouldn’t Woodstock baby boomer parents bring their families to big and far safer, state-of-the-art arena or stadium concerts, hold the mud and day-long traffic jams?
    Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
  • At any rate, as the trust fund surplus is getting drawn down to support the wave of retiring baby boomers, the issue is losing relevancy.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2023
  • Wall Street investors were attracted by the growing sector, which promised to explode as baby boomers retired.
    Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Massachusetts is one of the grayer states in the country, and retiring baby boomers are depleting the labor force ranks.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • However, their share of the US population will continue to grow as baby boomers age.
    Mike Schneider, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Love it or hate it, the modern farmhouse, with its clean look and a neutral color palette, is the millennial answer to the baby boomer McMansion.
    Photographs and Additional Reporting By Karen Dias, New York Times, 14 July 2023

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