as in speck
a very small piece
there's not a mote of dirt in that woman's house
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Recent Examples of mote
T’Challa’s coffin, carried by its team of all-woman warrior pallbearers—including Danai Gurira’s Okoye, showing nothing but betraying every mote of sorrow even so—is eventually relinquished to the sky, where it’s subsumed into a triangular ceremonial object and whisked off, gone forever.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 8 Nov. 2022
And jab your holy finger at my mote?
—Eric Chevlen, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
Humans sitting on a tiny little mote of a planet in a hostile void worked collaboratively over many years to create incredible instruments capable of gathering photons of light emitted from a nebula 5,500 years ago.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2016
The world’s smallest battery is smaller than a dust mote.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Mar. 2022
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 8 Nov. 2022
And jab your holy finger at my mote?
—Eric Chevlen, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
Humans sitting on a tiny little mote of a planet in a hostile void worked collaboratively over many years to create incredible instruments capable of gathering photons of light emitted from a nebula 5,500 years ago.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2016
The world’s smallest battery is smaller than a dust mote.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Mar. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mote
Noun
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Coincidentally, also visible in the new images is the planet Mercury, appearing as a tiny speck of light gliding closer to the sun.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Such heady heights look like a speck on the horizon right now, and the question is how small that prospect needs to shrink for anger in the stands to rise again.—
Laurie Whitwell,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The particles can pass through any kind of matter and contain information about some of the most energetic events in the universe, such as gamma-ray bursts.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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In effect, the particles accelerate by surfing on these waves.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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The song structures melt into goo; the lyrics pelt flecks of raw feeling.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
3 Dec. 2024
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Each light is attached to a green string to easily blend into your tree, and once the lights are turned on, the liquid inside each bulb bubbles to reveal floating flecks of gold glitter to make your tree shine.—
Kaitlin Gates,
Southern Living,
30 Oct. 2024
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One of those rare attacks occurred just two years ago in 2023, when a shark bit a snorkeling American woman.—
Max Saltman,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
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Rather than spending years of R&D perpetually reinventing themselves, its creators take what’s worked in their own games, incorporate the best bits of others, and remix the brew over and over.—
Isaiah Colbert,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
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Everything comes into focus: grains that are shiny, fluffy and tender, yet somehow still individual, sticky and standing.—
Eric Kim,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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The best foods to focus on to keep your gut status quo are plenty of fiber-rich whole grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes, plus fruits and veggies, adds Wright.—
Mara Santilli,
Flow Space,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Mote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mote. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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