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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Other subjects tackled in the book include Hollywood’s gentleman jewel thief Gerard Graham Dennis, Walter Wanger’s crime of passion against Jennings Lang and even Winona Ryder’s early aughts shoplifting scandal.
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Jack Dunn, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
Typically cheap, army surplus stores informed counterculture style in the 1960s, later shaping the uniform of aughts indie bands like The Strokes.
—Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
Back in the early aughts, during the height of the poker boom, the secrets of the game were both doctrinaire and vague.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Leading up to the ‘It’ bag boom of the early aughts, minimalist purses made of high-quality construction and materials with functionality at top of mind were some of the most coveted accessories of the 1990s.
—Claire Sullivan, WWD, 8 Oct. 2024
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Jack Dunn, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
Typically cheap, army surplus stores informed counterculture style in the 1960s, later shaping the uniform of aughts indie bands like The Strokes.
—Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
Back in the early aughts, during the height of the poker boom, the secrets of the game were both doctrinaire and vague.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Leading up to the ‘It’ bag boom of the early aughts, minimalist purses made of high-quality construction and materials with functionality at top of mind were some of the most coveted accessories of the 1990s.
—Claire Sullivan, WWD, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Aught.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aught. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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