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: one that booms
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: one that joins a rush of settlers to a boom area
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: a transient worker (such as a bridge builder)
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: a person born during a baby boom : baby boomer
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Why boomers aren’t going anywhere Baby boomers—now ages 62 to 79—accounted for 42% of all buyers and a dominant 55% of all sellers. —
Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2026 That marked the second year in a row, but just the third time in the last decade, that boomers were the largest share of buyers. —Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2026 The millennial-Gen Z generational divide, both sides fighting over scraps of a shrinking pie while still in smiling, obsequious service to aging boomers, is an enticing hook made more so by meta casting. —Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026 Doomers versus boomers Much like the AI debate, the private credit conversation has doomers and boomers. —Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boomer
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Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2026 That marked the second year in a row, but just the third time in the last decade, that boomers were the largest share of buyers. —Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2026 The millennial-Gen Z generational divide, both sides fighting over scraps of a shrinking pie while still in smiling, obsequious service to aging boomers, is an enticing hook made more so by meta casting. —Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026 Doomers versus boomers Much like the AI debate, the private credit conversation has doomers and boomers. —Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boomer
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“Boomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/boomer. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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