the millennium

noun

: the beginning of the third period of a thousand years counted from the beginning of the Christian era : the year 2000

We had a party to celebrate the millennium.

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Prolonged uncertainty Accounting for uncertainty for a matter of days might prove to be somewhat optimistic—elections since the turn of the millennium have dragged on for weeks before a final result was announced. —

Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024 At the turn of the millennium, the teen queen captured the hearts of millions with her pop hits — and, unknowingly, established a business model that would carry for decades to come. —

James Dinh, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2024 Indiana is perhaps best known for his true-crime trilogy inaugurated in the late 1990s—Resentment: A Comedy; Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story; and Depraved Indifference—addressing the warped disregard for human life that characterized the turn of the millennium. —

News Desk, Artforum, 24 Oct. 2024 The emergence of this aesthetic at the turn of the millennium was not arbitrary. —

Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the millennium

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