as in nothing
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 aught
Al Maria recalled a story from her youth, when her American friends were trapped inside the Church of Nativity during a siege in the early aughts.
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Carita Rizzo, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
In the early aughts, some of the best WNBA basketball in the nation was played in my backyard of San Antonio, Texas—or not too far away.
—Hypatia Sorunke, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2024
Bilson starred opposite Brody on the Fox teen drama The O.C., and the two dated for three years in the early aughts.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Zoom in: The runner-ups rounding out our top 5 are equally ridiculous:
🐶 Stitch, the circa early aughts cartoon alien dog.
🍓 Strawberry Shortcake, the character from the '80s.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
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Carita Rizzo, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
In the early aughts, some of the best WNBA basketball in the nation was played in my backyard of San Antonio, Texas—or not too far away.
—Hypatia Sorunke, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2024
Bilson starred opposite Brody on the Fox teen drama The O.C., and the two dated for three years in the early aughts.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Zoom in: The runner-ups rounding out our top 5 are equally ridiculous:
🐶 Stitch, the circa early aughts cartoon alien dog.
🍓 Strawberry Shortcake, the character from the '80s.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aught
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The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
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But nothings more peaceful than tomorrow to a man going through pain today.Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
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Photograph: Andrea Kane/Institute for Advanced Study This led her to the zeros of trace phi cubed.Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
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Like Schrodinger's cat, qubits can be both ones and zeros at once, a property known as superposition.Anand Oswal, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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But these will come to naught unless the government can see them clearly—and find the strength to take advantage of them.Robert M. Danin, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
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Scientists use a metric called the basic reproduction number or reproduction value — referred to as R0 and pronounced R naught — to rate how transmissible or contagious a disease is.Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Aug. 2021
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“Aught.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aught. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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