- present tense form of dot (3rd person singular).
dots
Example Sentences
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Their results suggest that little red dots may not represent an entirely separate population of galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
I have scattergrams — charts showing no reliable pattern — of every major valuation metric against one-year forward returns, and the dots are all over the map.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
According to Ms. Hazrat, Aristophanes’ dots were “the first nonalphabetical marks devoted to unlocking sentence structure and therefore enabling the performance of text.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Since history's most powerful telescope went online in 2022, it has been spotting many extremely bright cosmic objects dubbed "little red dots" in the early universe that have baffled scientists.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Swoops, lines, dots, etc., can represent many vocal sounds.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
