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- noun Plural form of
boomlet .
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Examples
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Other candidates have entered with their own media boomlets, only to slip away without seriously challenging Mr. Romney's position as the leading candidate for the GOP nomination.
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Bumper crops led to baby boomlets nine months later, poor crops to noticeable slides in babymaking.
Robert Engelman: Surging Vasectomies Signal Record Births are History
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Their baby-boomer parents drove American culture with their passions and fads; 10-year-olds now represent the leading edge of another demographic burst; they're the baby boomlets.
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It seeks to capitalize on two American boomlets: the rebirth of affection for a game that has ceased to be the national pastime; and the nation's current fascination with summing up the century with top-100 lists.
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The reason: government assistance, insurance payouts and, in the case of the Midwest, production boomlets that inevitably follow such disasters will help regional economies recapture their losses.
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Buying boomlets have cropped up as people spend the francs, lire, pesetas and marks they had hidden from the tax-man; one German retail chain is openly urging people to spend their "black money."
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If current trends continue in developing countries, Generation Me boomlets might soon be arriving around the world.
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If current trends continue in developing countries, Generation Me boomlets might soon be arriving around the world.
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The previous boomlets favored candidates with one quality in common - their perceived enthusiasm for fighting Barack Obama.
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The Trump, Bachmann and now Cain boomlets reveal a worrying disinclination among some Republicans not to value government management very highly.
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