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2020s
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English
Pronunciation
en /twɛn(t)i ˈtwɛn(t)iz/ "twenty twenties"
less common en /tuː ˈθaʊzənd (ˌænd) ˈtwɛn(t)iz/ "two thousand (and) twenties"
Noun
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The period that started on January 1, 2020 and will end on December 31, 2029; almost the same period as the 3rd decade of the 21st century (which, however, started in year 2021 and will end with year 2030).
en David Brooks A Ridiculously Optimistic History of the Next Decade w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/opinion/2020s-decade.html 2020-01-02 Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed, there were roughly 300 state and federal elections during the Trump years and Republicans did horribly in most of them. https://web.archive.org/web/20200306051856/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/opinion/2020s-decade.html
en w:Ross Douthat Waking Up in 2030 w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/opinion/sunday/us-coronavirus-2030.html 2020-06-27 In higher education a similar transformation is being pulled forward: Colleges were expecting a grim landscape in the later 2020s, because 2010s birthrates were so low, but now a decline in foreign enrollment and an acceleration of online learning will threaten marginal state schools and possibly close small liberal-arts colleges much sooner. https://web.archive.org/web/20200718022308/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/opinion/sunday/us-coronavirus-2030.html
en Mike Konczal and J.W. Mason How to Have a Roaring 2020s (Without Wild Inflation) w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/opinion/inflation-economy-infrastructure.html 2021-06-15 To pull off a roaring 2020s, we should prepare to manage a boom, not fight it. https://web.archive.org/web/20210706064857/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/opinion/inflation-economy-infrastructure.html
Synonyms
en '20s, en 20s, en twenties
See also
en Decades