9/11
/ˌnaɪn.əˈlɛ.vən/
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Frequency: 5.06 in modern English
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Meaning
name
September 11, 2001; The date of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the United States.
name
The attacks themselves.
noun
An event comparable to the September 11 attacks.
noun
A negative event that a person or a group of people have experienced whose impact is, hyperbolically, comparable to that of the September 11 attacks.
Humorous
Example Sentences
- "What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq."
- "Republican front-runner twisted his arms in apparent imitation of Serge Kovaleski’s arthrogryposis as he reiterated controversial 9/11 claims"
- "As someone who studies the impact of misinformation on society, I often wish the young entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley who enabled communication at speed had been forced to run a 9/11 scenario with their technologies before they deployed them commercially."
- "Eleven million Spaniards responded to "their 9/11" by demonstrating in the rain against terrorism and their government's policies."
- ""I thought about ... the consequences for me saying I was a part of 9/11. I decided to just put my trust in God and tell the truth and time will tell," he said."
- "But experts who have studied these other "9/11s" say some offer important revelations, by comparison, about how America responded to its own."
Etymology
From the date September 11 written numerically with the notation used in the United States, in the month–day format.