motes

plural of mote

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of motes 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for motes
Noun
  • After a few days’ travel, some of the specks landed on a buoy floating in the North Atlantic off the coast of French Guyana.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Now for other people whose crepe myrtles look like yours, black bark and white specks are classic signs of crepe myrtle scales.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This area of open magnetic fields more easily releases charged particles into space.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • It is composed of smaller particles called quarks and gluons, bound by the strong interaction.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Its black and white or brown flecks convey a fresh, modern feel that's ideal for breaking away from the tyranny of basics.
    María Munsuri, Glamour, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Although other pests cause similar damage, thrips damage is often associate with numerous small flecks of dark green to black fecal matter.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The goal is to sit at the center of every money move—paying rent, parking spare cash in a three-month T-bill, even accessing emergency funds on a Sunday—while quietly automating the bits that don't need hands-on attention.
    Jamie Elkaleh, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Scientists thought these spiky bits might be spiny scales, like those found on the bodies of rays and sharks.
    Staff Author, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Lastly, fracturing of granite was measured under a microscope to see how much the grains had broken.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Those results get fed directly into climate models to better represent how variations in tiny grains influence the nature of the entire planet.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Frequent nicks, ingrown hairs, dry patches, and razor burn can result when relying on shaving as your primary hair removal method — but with the proper tools and techniques, these unpleasant side effects can be avoided.
    Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • When To Avoid Sanding If bare spots or brown patches begin to appear, there could actually be another issue with the lawn or parts of it.
    Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The show’s opening sequences show readers wrapping fish and other food scraps in the latest edition.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There may have been a few childhood scraps along the way, though.
    Otto Rabe, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In short, this is a smart gel where tiny sliding molecules act like both shock absorbers and stress indicators.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • As radiation interacted with the samples, the spectra shifted, signaling the formation of new molecules.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Motes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motes. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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