baby boom

noun

: a marked rise in birth rate (as in the U.S. following the end of World War II)

Examples of baby boom in a Sentence

There was a baby boom in the U.S. after World War II.

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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. —

Joe Murphy, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025 Context: The 1950s were a time of a post-war economic boom where suburbs exploded amid a baby boom as the nation embarked on building a massive highway system. —

Russell Contreras, Axios, 2 Nov. 2024 Chile’s privatized system of individual accounts receives kudos on Wall Street but has provided frustratingly low retirement incomes to the country’s baby boom generation. —

Andres Velasco, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2022 As the baby boom generation has increasingly shifted into retirement, fewer workers are paying into the system. —

Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for baby boom