How to Use baby boomer in a Sentence

baby boomer

noun
  • Younger people, spending a lot of time online, are actually more likely to fall prey to a scammer than baby boomers are.
    Whizy Kim, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Second, baby boomers generally have a higher credit score than most generations, with an average score of 743.
    Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Meanwhile, 47% of Gen Zers and 40% of baby boomers said the same.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
  • 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
  • Those numbers are much lower than the 19% of Gen Xers and 15% of baby boomers who plan to spend more.
    Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Redfin said baby boomers are most likely to stay in homes the longest.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Two-thirds of younger baby boomers don't have enough saved for their golden years.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 28 May 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
  • Not one of the defendants in the Chicago Seven trial was a baby boomer.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • 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 Wisconsin State Fair has revealed the first two main stage shows for 2024 catering to both baby boomers and young children.
    Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • 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
  • While 54% of baby boomer homeowners own their homes free and clear, according to Redfin, most of those with mortgages have low rates.
    Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 18 Apr. 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
  • The baby boomer kind of moving towards ‘the economy is messed up, uni-party, pedophiles.’ . . .
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 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
  • The average age of a motorcyclist in the U.S. has risen steadily as fewer young people have stepped up to take the place of baby boomers easing out of the saddle.
    Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
  • For the first time ever, Gen X workers saw their 401(k) balances top those of baby boomers, Fidelity data showed.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 23 June 2024
  • The big picture: About a quarter of Valley homes with three or more bedrooms are owned by baby boomers, per a recent Redfin analysis.
    Jessica Boehm, Axios, 10 Sep. 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

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