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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 Beauty Gifts Amika Aura Hair and Body Mist Y2K style is back on so many levels, all thanks to Gen Z’s nostalgic obsession with the early aughts. — Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 11 Aug. 2026 The latest revival gained serious momentum on Miu Miu’s Fall/Winter 2026 runway, where models wore nostalgic zigzag headbands reminiscent of the ones Lizzie McGuire made iconic in the early aughts. — Alyssa Rotunno, InStyle, 10 Aug. 2026 Back in the early aughts, former Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda wanted to show his company could hand-build a high-performance vehicle that could compete with the very best coming out of Germany and Italy. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2026 Only that one day in the mid-aughts, his name was suddenly as ubiquitous as the celebrity who inspired it. — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2026 Nicollette Sheridan, who played Paige Matheson on Knots Landing, found fame again on Desperate Housewives in the early aughts. — Makena Gera, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026 In the stone-age aughts, people did not have the propensity to boost their ego by owning stuff and boasting about their possessions online. — Zahra Tayeb, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 To the world, McRae is a strong, fearless entertainer, a triple threat who can pen songs that recall the fizzy pop of the early aughts and bring them to life as a ferocious singer and dancer. — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026 In both premise and execution, the show is hugely reminiscent of the Showtime series of the aughts and early 2010s that featured women in harsh circumstances going to extremes in order to get one over on a society that didn’t care about them. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2026

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zeros

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My number was a bother to my friends because of the two zeros.

— Murr Brewster, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2026
These machines can crunch numbers at blinding speeds—more than a quintillion (that’s a one followed by 18 zeroes) operations a second—assuming they can be fed data fast enough.

— Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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