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But while looking through the images, they spotted a little red dot.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

There, crawling on eight legs across the white sheets toward us, sporting a single dot on its back, was a deep-red, plump tick.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

"Sometimes it's a bit difficult to take the bus from dot to dot", says Yan Zhang, who works at Southampton university and doesn't drive, "so for shorter distances, I'll take the scooter."

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

And on red carpets and film festivals, you can find movie and industry leaders feeding their four favorite films into a microphone emblazoned with Letterboxd’s orange, green and blue dot logo.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Figure 1.64: When a note has more than one dot, each dot is worth half of the dot before it.

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

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

Maybe the only way to justify a magnetic attraction to wanting my bags, shoes and belts to be studded, spiky, pierced and heavy is by connecting the dots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Webb has detected unexpectedly massive objects in the early Universe, including sources sometimes described as "little red dots."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Americans may be uneasy about the state of the world, but most haven’t connected the dots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

“She was. But, honey, nobody is just one thing. We’re like those constellations you’re always telling me about. You need to connect all the dots to see the whole picture.”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

Multiple signs dotted on the shop window of specialised photography retailer Jessops shared the same message.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

I studied the pastries while pretending not to listen: tea-infused buns knotted with candied citrus, laminated pastry layered with spiced cream cheese, craggy oat muffins dotted with boysenberry preserves.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Anchored by Clemson University and dotted with former mill towns, it carries a decidedly working-class history that is a world removed from the chummy capital of Columbia and the wealthy cities along the coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

"We dotted every I, crossed every T, filled every document, attended every appointment. He was close to obtaining his legal status."

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

The abundant crepe myrtles and pink bougainvilleas that dotted the courtyard were also as beautiful and lively as I recalled.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

But not to be outdone by his opposite number, Jordan hit back for the hosts with a fine finish, dotting down in the corner despite Theo Attissogbe's last-ditch attempt to shove him into touch.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Almost all of Mandalay's flattened or toppled residential buildings have been cleared away, some of them already rebuilt and others remaining as fenced-off empty lots dotting the city.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

Should boomtowns dotting the new market be expected to shrink back into villages—or less?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

You get a polite dotting of fruit, sure, but rarely that jammy, tart little thrum that only arrives when berries are given permission to fully collapse into themselves.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

She had a few pimples dotting the sides of her cheeks near her ears.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young