How to Use baby bust in a Sentence
baby bust
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But the baby bust will play out over a much larger base.
—Warren Shoulberg, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
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The real cause for alarm, though, is not the prospect of a baby boom or baby bust.
—Natalia Kanem, CNN, 31 July 2021
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No, 2020 triggered a baby bust – and that will have lasting impacts.
—Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2020
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The birth rate in the United States was already declining, but the pandemic has brought its own baby bust.
—Tonya Russell, The Atlantic, 21 May 2021
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Such an outcome will lead to another baby bust and recession in the United States.
—Christine Michel Carter, Forbes, 20 June 2022
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So much for the baby bust worrying some commentators such as Elon Musk.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
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The fact that the baby bust wasn’t more pronounced among women who hadn’t gone to college may be a testament to the aid the government provided through much of the pandemic.
—Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022
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Or would worries about health and money lead people to delay or avoid getting pregnant, leading to a baby bust?
—Time, 30 Nov. 2022
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The effects of the great Chinese baby bust will percolate to nearly every corner of the global economy.
—Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 1 June 2021
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Perhaps when the data come in for 2022, statisticians will have a better idea of the pandemic’s role in reversing the country’s nearly decade-long baby bust.
—Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
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The baby bust isn’t expected to begin in earnest until December.
—Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
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This has happened in America before, during an early baby bust between the end of the baby boom and the late 1970s (generation X).
—Christine Michel Carter, Forbes, 20 June 2022
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The United States is in the midst of a baby bust as birthrates fall in every age group of women except for one: women in their 40s, according to government statistics released this week.
—Kim Painter, USA TODAY, 19 May 2018
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As the year went on, many began to abandon ideas of a baby boom, with evidence mounting that a baby bust could be on the horizon as families delayed plans to have children for more stable times.
—Robert Hart, Forbes, 5 May 2021
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Economically speaking, the signs pointed to a baby bust.
—Julia Zorthian, Time, 20 Oct. 2022
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But those solutions won’t last forever, especially as Alabama - and the nation as a whole - is in the middle of a ‘baby bust,’ or a steep decline in fertility rates.
—Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 20 Mar. 2021
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Despite the world’s myriad problems with overpopulation, many people are freaking out about the recent baby bust in California, the United States and, indeed, the world.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
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In America, suddenly ten percent fewer high school students will enter college because of the mini 2008 baby bust.
—Parag Khanna, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
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College presidents warn of an impending enrollment crisis, born of the Great Recession’s baby bust.
—New York Times, 13 May 2022
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But economists, such as those at the Brookings Institution, predicted that such a globally disruptive event would instead cause a baby bust.
—Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2021
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And yet, looking at the current baby bust in a holistic way means losing sight of the individual toll the pandemic is taking on those who just want to build their family, something which Schwandt notes is unequivocally bad.
—Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2021
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Demographers warn this baby bust is unlikely to be temporary.
—Wsj Noted., WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
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As the pandemic stretches into a second year and economic worry persists, demographers are studying the reasons for an anticipated pandemic baby bust.
—Leanne Italie, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2021
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Its demographic impact, however, is likely to be significantly larger than the nearly 3m tragic deaths so far attributed to the coronavirus thanks to an associated, worldwide baby bust.
—The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
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