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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 In the late aughts, the futuristic cowboys of Mexico’s tribal guarachero boom launched superstars like 3BallMTY and Erick Rincón, laying the percussive foundation for Colombia’s guaracha takeover of the following decade and breakouts like Fumaratto. — Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026 The whole scene had a slightly early-aughts feel, right down to a tray of cigarettes. — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2026 There was the legendary 959 in the 1980s, followed by the Carrera GT (picture up top) in the aughts, and then, most recently, the 918 Spyder. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2026 Despite the victory lap, combat operations in Iraq and across the Middle East continued through the aughts. — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 Our entry point is Sutskever, the low-EQ genius who barges into the office of Professor Geoffrey Hinton (Mark Rylance) as a 17-year-old undergraduate at the University of Toronto in the early aughts. — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026 The loud-mouthed cameos from ex-soccer players Zlatan Ibrahimović and Eric Cantona in Nike’s World Cup hero film Rip the Script were indicative of this, chiming with an older, more arrogant vision of Nike seen in the ’90s and the aughts. — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026 This was peak makeover era, after all—content like this defined the early aughts. — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 2 Oct. 2026 Who What Wear notes the toggle closures and sharp shoulders on this year’s military jackets and frames the mood as early-aughts nostalgia, a reference point landing with millennial and older Gen Z shoppers. — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026

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zeros

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Engineers could represent the two configurations as binary digits, or zeros and ones.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
This Zuckerberg is no longer made of flesh and blood but ones and zeros.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

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