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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Prolonged uncertainty Accounting for uncertainty for a matter of days might prove to be somewhat optimistic—elections since the turn of the millennium have dragged on for weeks before a final result was announced. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024 At the turn of the millennium, the teen queen captured the hearts of millions with her pop hits — and, unknowingly, established a business model that would carry for decades to come. James Dinh, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2024 Indiana is perhaps best known for his true-crime trilogy inaugurated in the late 1990s—Resentment: A Comedy; Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story; and Depraved Indifference—addressing the warped disregard for human life that characterized the turn of the millennium. News Desk, Artforum, 24 Oct. 2024 The emergence of this aesthetic at the turn of the millennium was not arbitrary. Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024 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 22 Nov. 2024.

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