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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Recent Examples of aught
And Anne Hathaway has pulled newsboy caps out from the early aughts vault.
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Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2024
Khloe Kardashian shows off a canary yellow Birkin in this photo from the early aughts.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
That tousled hair with the little aughts curls at the neck!
—Kate Lloyd, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
The musical features ’90s and early aughts pop songs from the likes of Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and Kelly Clarkson.
—Judy Kurtz, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024
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Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2024
Khloe Kardashian shows off a canary yellow Birkin in this photo from the early aughts.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
That tousled hair with the little aughts curls at the neck!
—Kate Lloyd, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
The musical features ’90s and early aughts pop songs from the likes of Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and Kelly Clarkson.
—Judy Kurtz, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aught
Noun
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My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Dec. 2024
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The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
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The binary system of ones and zeros later became the basis of digital coding, and Leibniz himself attempted to exploit it in some of his designs for machines that could perform calculations.Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Too often clubs hear of Leeds’ interest in a player and start adding zeros to the price tag — but the days of Leeds engaging in that sort of negotiating are long gone.Nancy Froston, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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But these will come to naught unless the government can see them clearly—and find the strength to take advantage of them.Robert M. Danin, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
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Scientists use a metric called the basic reproduction number or reproduction value — referred to as R0 and pronounced R naught — to rate how transmissible or contagious a disease is.Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Aug. 2021
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“Aught.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aught. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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