baby bust

noun

: a marked decline in birth rate
baby buster noun

Examples of baby bust in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Instead, the pandemic produced a baby bust. Grady McGregor, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2021 California is seeing a COVID-19 baby bust. Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021 Although there were predictions that COVID-19 triggered a baby bust, the 2020 data provides little insight into whether or not the pandemic actually impacted birth trends in the U.S. Emily Barone, Time, 5 May 2021 The ‘baby bust’ deepened through Covid. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022 Some Americans question the need to move that needle, arguing that a baby bust is good for the planet and its finite resources and that slower U.S. population growth – the last decade (2010-19) was the slowest since the Great Depression – is an opportunity not a crisis. Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2021 The Covid-19 baby boom appears to be a baby bust. NBC News, 28 Apr. 2021 So much for the baby bust worrying some commentators such as Elon Musk. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023 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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Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of baby bust was in 1966

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“Baby bust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baby%20bust. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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