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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That ties with Peru where, since the turn of the millennium, no fewer than seven presidents have been brought to trial or faced legal challenges relating to allegations of corruption or human rights abuses (while an eighth shot himself dead when police were closing in).
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Sofía Benavides, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
It’s based on Taco Bell’s actual Caramel Apple Empanada, a discontinued item that was brought back Tuesday as part of a Decades Y2K Menu of fan favorites from early in the millennium.
—Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
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).
—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
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Sofía Benavides, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
It’s based on Taco Bell’s actual Caramel Apple Empanada, a discontinued item that was brought back Tuesday as part of a Decades Y2K Menu of fan favorites from early in the millennium.
—Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
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).
—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
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“The millennium.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20millennium. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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