as in zeros
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 aughts
By the time his Astroworld album arrived in 2018, Scott had fully fused his influences — Houston rap, electronic and EDM, Kanye-era maximalism, and aughts-vintage trap — into a blockbuster vision.
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Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2026
Abercrombie and Fitch dropped a secret archives collection full of nostalgia-inducing pieces that’ll take you back to the early aughts.
—Lauren Finney Harden, InStyle, 19 Jan. 2026
Kianna Underwood, a former child actor known for roles in early-aughts Nickelodeon hits including All That and Little Bill, was killed Friday while walking in New York City.
—Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 17 Jan. 2026
Kutcher and Moore were married from 2005 to 2013, and their relationship was heavily covered — and scrutinized — by the media in the mid-to-late aughts.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
Late-aughts Hollywood was roiled by the financial crisis, and Paramount, the studio behind The Godfather and Titanic, was the struggling moviemaking arm of the Redstone family’s Viacom cable-TV empire.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
One of the most beloved series from Y2K and the early aughts is turning 27!
—Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
In the mid-aughts, Hatch said, firearms were quickly dismissed as a removal method at the Bonneville Dam because using them would have meant shutting down the interstate highway that runs past the dam, as well as clearing people out of the site, which is open to the public.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
Audi, which has been battling sales declines after a stunning recovery throughout the aughts and early 2010s, is floating around the 165,000 mark.
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 7 Jan. 2026
Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2026
Abercrombie and Fitch dropped a secret archives collection full of nostalgia-inducing pieces that’ll take you back to the early aughts.
—Lauren Finney Harden, InStyle, 19 Jan. 2026
Kianna Underwood, a former child actor known for roles in early-aughts Nickelodeon hits including All That and Little Bill, was killed Friday while walking in New York City.
—Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 17 Jan. 2026
Kutcher and Moore were married from 2005 to 2013, and their relationship was heavily covered — and scrutinized — by the media in the mid-to-late aughts.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
Late-aughts Hollywood was roiled by the financial crisis, and Paramount, the studio behind The Godfather and Titanic, was the struggling moviemaking arm of the Redstone family’s Viacom cable-TV empire.
—Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
One of the most beloved series from Y2K and the early aughts is turning 27!
—Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
In the mid-aughts, Hatch said, firearms were quickly dismissed as a removal method at the Bonneville Dam because using them would have meant shutting down the interstate highway that runs past the dam, as well as clearing people out of the site, which is open to the public.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
Audi, which has been battling sales declines after a stunning recovery throughout the aughts and early 2010s, is floating around the 165,000 mark.
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aughts
zeros
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According to the latest bound, proved in 2004 by Imre Ruzsa of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Hungary, a sum of 1020 cosines — that’s a 1 with 20 zeros after it, about the number of molecules in a cubic inch of air — must have a minimum value smaller than about −7.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Jan. 2026
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The Ducks dominated the first period by every measure except the score, with zeros remaining on the board as the teams headed to their respective dressing rooms.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Aughts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aughts. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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