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Example Sentences

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Without fail, the miniature version of me would blubber at Sully the polka dot monster reuniting with Boo, and Marlin the clownfish traversing the ocean to find his son.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Aerospace plants and oil and gas facilities dot the landscape in California, but it is easy for many people to be unaware of them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Boston Fed President Susan Collins, in an interview last week, lightly defended both the dot plot and the Fed’s current balance-sheet operations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Each dot adds half the length that the dot before it added.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones