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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But Jobs' perspective began changing around the turn of the millennium.
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 17 June 2025
Manager Dwight Yorke was on that breakout team at the dawn of the millennium, and he’s now tasked with engineering a huge upset over the host country.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 15 June 2025
But at the turn of the millennium, enrollment plunged as Chicago closed a massive public housing complex nearby and a growing number of Black families left the city.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 13 June 2025
Things were so complicated to handle in the beginning of the century, the millennium, when markets were liberalized, and digitalization took over our economic system and our social systems.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2025
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 17 June 2025
Manager Dwight Yorke was on that breakout team at the dawn of the millennium, and he’s now tasked with engineering a huge upset over the host country.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 15 June 2025
But at the turn of the millennium, enrollment plunged as Chicago closed a massive public housing complex nearby and a growing number of Black families left the city.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 13 June 2025
Things were so complicated to handle in the beginning of the century, the millennium, when markets were liberalized, and digitalization took over our economic system and our social systems.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the millennium
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“The millennium.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20millennium. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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