mote

These machines, which are a mere one-billionth of a meter in size, are no larger than a mote of dust, truly living up to the name "nano."

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2023

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

I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

Louder it seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating motes of dust to take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

The second is: what moste is worth And of costáge is lest put forth.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

A Choice of Emblemes, and other Deuises, For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by W. W. Greg

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

And for to know the moste parte of all maner of coynes of money, the whych is currant in every region.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various