ought
Example Sentences
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I made two features in New York back in the oughts.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024
Since it burst into the dating lexicon in the early oughts, we’ve added dozens more terms — Gatsbying, orbiting, breadcrumbing, love bombing, benching, stashing, the list goes on.
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2021
It was those drool-worthy books that truly helped create Instagram's food photography aesthetic — that chocolate babka from "Jerusalem" was born for social media — and made sumac the turmeric of the mid oughts.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2020
There was a time, long, long ago in the early oughts, when hip-hop's reigning royals Mr. and Mrs. Carter were separate entities: just Beyoncé Knowles and JAY-Z, solo artists.
From Time • Oct. 2, 2017
We went to school there a full year, but all I remember hearing that I hadn’t heard before was, “Making thousands of egg-shaped oughts will improve penmanship.”
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
