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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 All through the late ’90s and early aughts, I was called a lesbian producer. — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026 Erin Erin Andrews has been a fixture on the sidelines since joining ESPN in the early aughts. — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 1 Sep. 2026 The most highly anticipated of those is A24’s Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as none other than Chris Hansen, the host of the infamous early-aughts series To Catch a Predator. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 1 Sep. 2026 Nadler retired to South Florida in the early aughts and was an executive producer of iMordecai (2022), starring Judd Hirsch. — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026 The group’s early music was lo-fi, vintage-leaning, and just twee enough to make the scrappy garage rockers an emblem of early-mid aughts Urban Outfitters hipsterdom. — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2026 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

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zeros

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Tech has crept into every facet of everyday life, like an invisible fog of ones and zeros.

— Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
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

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