1
: one that booms
2
: one that joins a rush of settlers to a boom area
3
: a transient worker (such as a bridge builder)
4
: a person born during a baby boom : baby boomer
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Photo: Laure Joliet The foundation of this annual report, which Stanback’s team usually starts compiling in August, is built on consumer behavior in real time from searches on Pinterest’s platform across a global audience of Gen Z, millennials, boomers, and Gen X.
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Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 21 Feb. 2025
This belief was endorsed most strongly by older generations, like boomers and Gen X, but even Gen Z somewhat agreed with the idea of generational decline.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Alex: What’s sort of funny though is that the culture that millennials absorbed as children, was all created by older Gen X and boomers, who were reacting to more rigid attitudes from the Greatest Generation and beyond.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 31 Jan. 2025
Younger boomers came of age in the credit card era
In prior generations, common wisdom held that households should pay off their debt, including mortgage debt, before retirement.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
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Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 21 Feb. 2025
This belief was endorsed most strongly by older generations, like boomers and Gen X, but even Gen Z somewhat agreed with the idea of generational decline.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Alex: What’s sort of funny though is that the culture that millennials absorbed as children, was all created by older Gen X and boomers, who were reacting to more rigid attitudes from the Greatest Generation and beyond.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 31 Jan. 2025
Younger boomers came of age in the credit card era
In prior generations, common wisdom held that households should pay off their debt, including mortgage debt, before retirement.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Boomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boomer. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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