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
Momentum snowballed and the enthusiasm surrounding that dream provided yet another mote of optimism.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2021
The bee tugged diligently at a mote of the muck with her mouthparts, then carried it away.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2020
But mote warriors were coming up the stairs.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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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
Blanchett adeptly realizes these motes of internal struggle throughout the series, which makes the moments when she drops her façade and voices her aggravation at having to dim her abilities pay off splendidly.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 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
Dust motes danced in the beam as he swung it back and forth, revealing scarred metal and rows of bolts and protruding edges and ridges.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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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
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
I take a deep interest in moste awl the animils, and particularly in mudturkles, and i dew hope that the Legislature in their wisdum won’t pass a law “prohibiting enny more mudturkles.”
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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
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