as in speck
a very small piece
there's not a mote of dirt in that woman's house
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Recent Examples of mote
There’s always a new speck of dirt, mote of dust, or lock of hair to clean up.
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Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
There’s a Gambit-adjacent one that has players depositing motes while killing other teams.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
The sensors’ small size allows seamless integration into almost any environment, while the wireless, modular design lets motes be added or removed as needed depending on the application.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
The researchers say their prototype mote used a commercially available circuit board.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2016
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Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
There’s a Gambit-adjacent one that has players depositing motes while killing other teams.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
The sensors’ small size allows seamless integration into almost any environment, while the wireless, modular design lets motes be added or removed as needed depending on the application.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
The researchers say their prototype mote used a commercially available circuit board.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mote
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What emerged was an omelet of ideal and epitomic shape—straight, proudly puffed, about six and a half inches long and two and a half inches wide, with squarish ends and neither a speck nor drop of oil or liquid egg anywhere around.—
Jeffrey Steingarten,
Vogue,
5 Apr. 2026
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Is that oblong speck an egg sac or a flake of dandruff?—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
30 Mar. 2026
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In the late 1990s, when physicists unexpectedly discovered that neutrinos have mass, Thierry Lasserre abandoned cosmology to go all in on the particles.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Apr. 2026
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Subatomic particles, gravity wells and the beginning of the universe – these are difficult and mysterious concepts that are better understood with storytelling and metaphor.—
Regina G. Barber,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2026
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Its design, crafted by Russell Sage Studio, is meant to be an on-the-nose reflection of the distillery's famed product, with bronzy walls the color of its single malt, and a ceiling painted to look like barley, reflecting the morning dew with flecks of gold throughout.—
Alessandra Amodio,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Apr. 2026
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Berber carpet Berber is a type of loop pile carpet with flecks of color.—
Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
12 Mar. 2026
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When the crew retracted the drill to replace its bit, an overpowering jet of oil fountained from the well.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Young Alfred Tennyson grew up in a similarly provincial bit of England, tucked away in his father’s vicarage on a remote part of the east coast of England in a village of fewer than a hundred souls.—
Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Look for whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and words like steamed, baked, poached, roasted, broiled or grilled.—
Dr. Sarah Kinsella,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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Regardless of the type, rye bread can be a nutritious option, but that's especially so when it’s made from whole-grain rye.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Mote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mote. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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