How to Use baby bust in a Sentence

baby bust

noun
  • The real cause for alarm, though, is not the prospect of a baby boom or baby bust.
    — Natalia Kanem, CNN, 31 July 2021
  • No, 2020 triggered a baby bust – and that will have lasting impacts.
    — Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Could remote work fix America's baby bust?
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Or would worries about health and money lead people to delay or avoid getting pregnant, leading to a baby bust?
    — Time, 30 Nov. 2022
  • There’s no one explanation for the baby bust, marine scientists told me.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Two new studies suggest smartphones are responsible for the baby bust.
    — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 16 June 2026
  • So much for the baby bust worrying some commentators such as Elon Musk.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Such an outcome will lead to another baby bust and recession in the United States.
    — Christine Michel Carter, Forbes, 20 June 2022
  • 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
  • The baby bust isn’t expected to begin in earnest until December.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Demographers warn this baby bust is unlikely to be temporary.
    — Wsj Noted., WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The effects of the great Chinese baby bust will percolate to nearly every corner of the global economy.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 1 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The world’s second-largest economy now has to contend with slowing growth, while a fast-greying population and a baby bust have piled pressure on pension and public health systems.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune Asia, 17 Jan. 2025
  • College presidents warn of an impending enrollment crisis, born of the Great Recession’s baby bust.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2022
  • Technically, the present baby bust in America and elsewhere did not begin with the Great Recession but resumed.
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nevertheless, permanent demographic shifts, including a baby bust, have created long-term talent shortages for certain jobs and skills that could persist for years.
    — John M. Bremen, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 20 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • With another baby bust during the Covid-19 pandemic, the following generation will likely be even smaller.
    — Gil Barndollar, Vox, 1 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Permanent demographic shifts, including a baby bust, continued to create long-term talent shortages for certain jobs and skills that could persist for years, even as some companies laid off large numbers of existing workers.
    — John M. Bremen, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The baby bust has been particularly pronounced in rapidly aging populations like Southern California.
    — Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 2 June 2024
  • Despite decades of declining birth rates and years of hand-wringing over a pandemic baby bust, there are now more than 2 billion alpha children worldwide — more than quarter of the population of the planet — and some 6 million in California alone.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • To survive the post-2008 baby bust, colleges may need to enroll more underrepresented minority and low-income students, and adjust fees and programming to help students complete degrees without a mountain of debt.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024

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