mote

That is said with nary a mote of sarcasm.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2024

Bangladesh, one of the world's fastest-growing economies, has raised fuel prices by mote than 50% in just a week.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2022

And we as humans, temporary inhabitants of a dust mote, as Carl Sagan said, did what we had to do.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

After the issue was resolved, another mote of organic material began to threaten the mission’s launch.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 25, 2020

After he’d learned his own way around, it would be up to him to take risks for himself—if he wanted to make mote and quicker money.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

As workers wiped away the last motes of construction dust in the new Paddington station for the Elizabeth line, Byford took a group of international reporters through the system for a tour.

From Washington Post ● May 12, 2022

How do you get from microscopic motes to entire worlds thousands of kilometers across?

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2020

“What he came to believe, I think deeply and honestly, was that human beings were insignificant little dust motes in this enormous universe and that eventually we would discover that we were not particularly significant.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2020

“He would open the curtains a little bit and just study the dust motes, as if it was like a universe of stars that were floating around,” Clark recalls.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2018

Since King Hamlet’s burial, the chapel had been little used and dust motes drifted in the light beams.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Round Continent, they wrote, “produces the moste dear skins,” while the “Round and Long Continents are the best history and story righting in the world, and best artests.”

From Slate ● May 28, 2015

Ah Gineura, the fairest Lady in all this Countrey, and the moste vnfaithfull Woman of oure time, where be thine eyes and iudgement?

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

For auoiding the 29 whiche, I take the meane to be best, and against this sweat moste commendable.

From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by John Caius

I take a deep interest in moste awl the animils, and particularly in mudturkles, and i dew hope that the Legislature in their wisdum won’t pass a law “prohibiting enny more mudturkles.”

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

And for to know the moste parte of all maner of coynes of money, the whych is currant in every region.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various