dots

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People are carefully trying to connect the dots, trying to point to places within Dylan’s work where he’s mentioned gangsters or specific moments in American history.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

“Californians connect the dots between what’s going on with extreme climate and wildfires and climate,” said Baldassare, the institute’s survey director.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

About ten years ago, Professors Jöns and Trotta outlined a plan for using quantum dots as sources of entangled photon pairs in communication and teleportation systems.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

The 56-year-old lawyer and financier argued that the Fed’s forward guidance attempts to tell the world “what its dots will be, what its forecasts will be.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

He had seen so many paintings of edelweiss, that cheerful white flower that dots the Alps each spring, that he sometimes found himself doodling pictures in the margins of his train tickets.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood