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9/11

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See also:911,9・11,and9-1-1

English

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The World Trade Center was burning down with a large explosion on the south tower immediately after being struck.
The north face ofTwo World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck byUnited Airlines Flight 175

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Etymology

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From the date September 11 written in numbers according the format often used in theUnited States, which puts the month before the day.

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Proper noun

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9/11

  1. September 11, 2001; Thedate of theattacks on theWorld Trade Center and thePentagon in the United States.
  2. (metonymic)The attacks themselves.
    • 2014 November 17,Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version:International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on10 June 2021:
      What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after9/11, 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.
    • 2015 November 26, Claire Phipps, “New York Times slams 'outrageous' Donald Trump for mocking reporter's disability”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN, archived fromthe original on26 March 2025:
      Republican front-runner twisted his arms in apparent imitation of Serge Kovaleski’s arthrogryposis as he reiterated controversial9/11 claims
    • 2019 September 1, Claire Wardle, “Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder”, inScientific American[3], archived fromthe original on1 April 2025:
      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 a9/11 scenario with their technologies before they deployed them commercially.

Usage notes

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  • The pronunciation/naɪn.wʌnˈwʌn/ ("nine-one-one") is usually used for the telephone number911 instead of the date.

Translations

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September 11 attacks

Noun

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9/11 (plural9/11s)

  1. September 11, adate of thecalender.
  2. Anevent comparable to the September 11 attacks.
    • 2005, Peter H. Merkl,The Rift Between America And Old Europe: The Distracted Eagle, Routledge, page73:
      Eleven million Spaniards responded to "their9/11" by demonstrating in the rain against terrorism and their government's policies.
    • 2006 April 14, “Moussaoui says he wants more 9/11s”, inThe Age[4]:
      Moussaoui says he wants more9/11s [title]
    • 2006, Michael Weissenstein, “Nations respond to their '9/11s'”, inInternational Institute for Strategic Studies[5], archived fromthe original on8 April 2008:
      But experts who have studied these other "9/11s" say some offer important revelations, by comparison, about how America responded to its own.
    • 2007, David E. Long, Bernard Reich, Mark Gasiorowski,The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa:
      Jordanians referred to this horrific event as "their9-11".
    • 2023 October 9, Ben Doherty, “Israel military says situation ‘dire’ in south as 260 bodies retrieved from festival”, inThe Guardian[6],→ISSN:
      IDF says fighting is ongoing in south, saying it ‘could be a9/11 and a Pearl Harbour wrapped into one’ as Supernova festival-goers describe attack[.]
  3. (Internetslang, humorous) Anegative event that a person or a group of people have experienced whose impact is,hyperbolically,comparable to that of the September 11 attacks.
    This was my9/11.
    9/11 for unfunny people

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Translations

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an event comparable to 9/11

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