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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Since the turn of the millennium, the average points total for the team winning the title has been 89.2 points.
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Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Most recently, Republicans began the 106th and 107th congresses with 222 or fewer seats around the turn of the millennium.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
The dress comes from the Italian house’s spring 1999 collection—whose slinky, iridescent slips were perhaps most famously worn by Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss during a joint trip to Versace’s Diamonds Are Forever celebration at London’s Syon House in the run up to the millennium.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025
The ball got aluminum skin, rhinestones, strobes, and computer controls in the late 1990s, and its now-signature crystal triangles (courtesy of Waterford Crystal) at the turn of the millennium.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
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Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Most recently, Republicans began the 106th and 107th congresses with 222 or fewer seats around the turn of the millennium.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
The dress comes from the Italian house’s spring 1999 collection—whose slinky, iridescent slips were perhaps most famously worn by Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss during a joint trip to Versace’s Diamonds Are Forever celebration at London’s Syon House in the run up to the millennium.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025
The ball got aluminum skin, rhinestones, strobes, and computer controls in the late 1990s, and its now-signature crystal triangles (courtesy of Waterford Crystal) at the turn of the millennium.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
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“The millennium.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20millennium. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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