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Bangladesh, one of the world's fastest-growing economies, has raised fuel prices by mote than 50% in just a week.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2022

And we as humans, temporary inhabitants of a dust mote, as Carl Sagan said, did what we had to do.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

After the issue was resolved, another mote of organic material began to threaten the mission’s launch.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 25, 2020

The host cued up a movie that revealed our place in the universe: floating on a small blue dot in a mote of sunlight.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2020

Maybe instead of feeling like a mote of dust, we can remember that all the creatures on this Earth are made from stardust.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

How do you get from microscopic motes to entire worlds thousands of kilometers across?

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2020

“What he came to believe, I think deeply and honestly, was that human beings were insignificant little dust motes in this enormous universe and that eventually we would discover that we were not particularly significant.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2020

But the superconducting sensors could measure only the average field across the zircons, which are as small as motes of dust.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2020

Adora is one of many reasons tension hangs over everything in Camille’s small town like an August humidity, but “Sharp Objects” refuses to spice the narrative’s tragedy with wit or motes of humor.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2018

Now Brinker, with his steady wit and ceaseless plans, Brinker had nothing to offer in place of Leper’s dust motes and creeping ivy and snails.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Round Continent, they wrote, “produces the moste dear skins,” while the “Round and Long Continents are the best history and story righting in the world, and best artests.”

From Slate ● May 28, 2015

A Booke declaring the fearfull vexation of one Alexander Nyndge, Beynge moste Horriblye tormented wyth an euyll spirit, the xx. daie of Januarie.

From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

The moste prinsipal bizness ov the peopil waz pealing bark in the winter, and pitchin cents az soon az warm wether sot in.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

I will not here describe the moste part of the prouision for that feast, nor the diuersity of Meates, or the delycate kyndes of Wines.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

Ah Gineura, the fairest Lady in all this Countrey, and the moste vnfaithfull Woman of oure time, where be thine eyes and iudgement?

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter