dots

Example Sentences

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“But he dots his Is and crosses his Ts and does all the right things.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

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

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

There was only his usual walnut-brown skin and dots of freckles.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova