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aught

noun as in nothing

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“If you think about what the aughts were culturally, there was reverence and fear about technology and how it would affect our interpersonal relationships. This is all very familiar.”

The longtime collaborators revealed Monday that they have been dating for more than a decade, pretty much since they gained popularity in the late aughts.

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That compares with nearly $6 in the aughts, when the U.S. burned about a third less natural gas than it does now, according to the U.S.

In the late 1990s and early aughts, the conservative Parents Television Council struck fear in the hearts of network TV executives for its high-profile campaigns against shows it deemed too raunchy.

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Meanwhile, the style of play in the NHL became faster and a little less bruising than it had been in the aughts—and far less brutal than it was in Gretzky’s heyday.

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