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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Timing that shortest of all short windows between when an avocado is hard as rock and horribly black and squishy has become one of the millennium’s many small trials in life (for avocado fans at least).
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Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
At the turn of the millennium, members were only required to make 12 appearances a year.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Aug. 2025
The Jubilee 2000 movement at the turn of the millennium secured the cancellation of $76 billion in debt for 36 of the world's poorest countries.
—Mohamed Nasheed, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Data from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) points to a clear decline in grid reliability, leaving many consumers with a system less dependable than the one their parents knew at the start of the millennium.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025
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Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
At the turn of the millennium, members were only required to make 12 appearances a year.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Aug. 2025
The Jubilee 2000 movement at the turn of the millennium secured the cancellation of $76 billion in debt for 36 of the world's poorest countries.
—Mohamed Nasheed, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Data from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) points to a clear decline in grid reliability, leaving many consumers with a system less dependable than the one their parents knew at the start of the millennium.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Aug. 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 10 Sep. 2025.
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