mote

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Recent Examples of mote In the 1996 film Twister, storm chasers played by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton sacrifice nearly everything to let loose swarms of data-collecting motes that get sucked up into a tornado and beam data back. IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2023 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. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 8 Nov. 2022 The world’s smallest battery is smaller than a dust mote. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Mar. 2022 How lonely, and how far away everything is compared to that mote of dust. NBC News, 22 July 2021 See All Example Sentences for mote
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Noun
  • Serve them with slices of prosciutto or speck, sure.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2025
  • Dishes such as beef stew with speck dumplings or Wienerschnitzel in butter breaded veal cutlet, with roasted potatoes and cranberry jam, are big favorites.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Kaiser consistently said that the particles were harmless, inert material dislodged by a malfunctioning water heater that was not infectious.
    Paul Sisson, Mercury News, 10 July 2025
  • The unit is also equipped with a Clean Sense IQ monitor, which will keep track of any extra particles.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • In any case, there are sure to be at least a few flecks of moss or lichen, gray or gray-green, on that side.
    Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
  • The workmanship shows in the color and precision of the grout, the mottling of dark flecks, and the triangular pieces where the arches meet — details that give the façade a subliminal liveliness.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • These particles include tiny bits of pollution from engines, heating systems, wildfires, and industrial activity But 2023 was a cautionary tale: wildfire smoke pushed the annual average back up to 8.7, a level not seen since the previous decade.
    Youssef Rafik, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
  • With Clarke coming into Casa, things just clicked a little bit more easily, and things gelled together with them more.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Wilkerson was everywhere, her touches seemingly as numerous as the grains of sand beneath her feet.
    Devon Henderson, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
  • However, unlike shipping’s tonnage reports, the amount of grain moved by rail is not public.
    Shelley Nelson, Twin Cities, 12 July 2025

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“Mote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mote. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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