mote
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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
He noted that Jesus Christ, who was the original pundit, said to “cast out the beam in our own eye before we cast out the mote in the eye of another.”
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 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
But mote warriors were coming up the stairs.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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As workers wiped away the last motes of construction dust in the new Paddington station for the Elizabeth line, Byford took a group of international reporters through the system for a tour.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2022
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
“He would open the curtains a little bit and just study the dust motes, as if it was like a universe of stars that were floating around,” Clark recalls.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2018
Its beam highlights the dust motes dancing in the air.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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
But he sey wyell that thar was no better, and tharfor he gawe it hum, and mayde hume to soffer moste in this wrechede worlde than euer dyde ony man, or euermore shall.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney
Ech man wot wel, that at a kinges feeste Hath plentee, to the moste and to the leeste, And deyntees mo than been in my knowing.
From Chaucer and His Times by Hadow, Grace E.
"Bot I ame of ane other contree, If I be payrelde moste of prysse; I ryde aftyre this wylde fee; My raches rynnys at my devyse."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
The English verse— When lyffe is most loued, and deth is moste hated, Then dethe draweth his drawght and makyth man full naked occurs as a preface in MSS.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
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