mot

Example Sentences

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And with a bon mot, it’s very few mots, you know?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

I have a bon mot I frequently employ: cautiously poss-imistic.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2023

Citizens' Van Saun said the bank is also tightening its appetite for new mortgage credit, but that move is mot as dramatic as that for auto loans.

From Reuters • Jan. 30, 2023

Economists would point to the folly of a course of action, and he would pull out a bon mot or caricature them as “the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

“Still, they should be mot*; careful with those helicopters,” Shay said.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld