mote
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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
He noted that Jesus Christ, who was the original pundit, said to “cast out the beam in our own eye before we cast out the mote in the eye of another.”
From Slate • Feb. 25, 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
On the day after our aquarium visit, we walked into Mrs. Turton’s classroom and saw a quote on the blackboard: a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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