2015

Mid-decade mark

2015 is the year following 2014 and preceding 2016.

Like all year numbers, it functions as a noun identifying a specific calendar year: The album came out in 2015.

Years also work as modifiers: the 2015 election, 2015 models.

In casual speech, the leading digits may be dropped: back in '15.

politics

Obamacare

2010 federal health law

culture

hoverboard

Self-balancing electric rideable

millennial

streaming

Real-time digital delivery

Instagram · Uber · Airbnb · Spotify · entrepreneurship · connectivity

science

CRISPR

Gene-editing molecular machinery

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temporal distance

2015prehistory

Era before writing

antiquity · ancient times · Year One · time immemorial

temporal unit scale

2015millennium

Span of thousand years

eon · epoch · eternity · century · era

cultural/historical character

2015ancient Rome

Early Italian empire city

ancient Egypt · prehistory

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Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G