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aughts

noun

plural of aught

as in zeros

the numerical symbol 0 or the absence of number or quantity represented by it for dates, the year is automatically listed as a pair of aughts, so the user has to scroll down to the correct figure

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Recent Examples of aughts This is a stark contrast from the dogs my family always had growing up in the ‘90s and early aughts. — Mimi Montgomery, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026 Jonah Kahn worked for one of these companies in the early aughts as a wholesaler. — Vito Emanuel, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026 Victoria’s Secret under CEO Hillary Super has doubled down on its authority as the go-to destination for bras and bra fittings—and recaptured some aughts nostalgia—riding that strategy to four consecutive quarters of growth. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 Part comedy, part child-appropriate horror, this early aughts film documents the friendship of human child Tony and vampire kid Rudolph. — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 22 Aug. 2026 The answer was hip-hop, R&B and pop acts from the late 1990s and early aughts. — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 But in the late aughts, that link weakened as action sports began to identify with hip-hop, electronic music and DJs. — Michelle Bruton, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 View this post on Instagram Ashlee Simpson Simpson and Panettiere came of age in the same era of aughts Hollywood. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2026 But that era ended in the mid-aughts as those Atlas rockets reached retirement. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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zeros

Noun

Those sizes vary from size four all the way down to zero, but even the zeros weren’t small enough.

— Marti Noxon, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
Each number is expressed with three additional zeroes, yet going from a million to a billion requires adding 999 million.

— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026

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