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But the 36-year-old bride-to-be has also made clear that Easter eggs will never apply to her personal life, leaving the world connecting dots that seemingly don't exist.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Erdős showed in 1946 that arranging those dots in a grid produced a certain number of pairs, and his conjecture was that no arrangement could do much better.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Concerns have grown over “blue-dot fever,” a term used to describe a prevalence of blue dots that represent empty seats on venue seat maps.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

People are carefully trying to connect the dots, trying to point to places within Dylan’s work where he’s mentioned gangsters or specific moments in American history.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

The simple type was based on dots and lines, while the complicated type was based on glyphs—grotesque faces.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife