: a small particle : speck entry 1
motes danced in the shafts of sunlight—
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Noun
there's not a mote of dirt in that woman's house
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Tim Stevens, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2023
In the 1996 film Twister, storm chasers played by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton sacrifice nearly everything to let loose swarms of data-collecting motes that get sucked up into a tornado and beam data back.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2023
Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
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Noun
Slowly, surely, one mote of black dust at a time, tires are leaving their mark on the environment.
—Tim Stevens, The Verge, 17 Nov. 2023
In the 1996 film Twister, storm chasers played by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton sacrifice nearly everything to let loose swarms of data-collecting motes that get sucked up into a tornado and beam data back.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2023
Auxiliary verb
For Bay Area band Pablo Cruise, however, the connection to the genre has been longer — and mote literal — than for most.
—Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
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“Mote.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mote. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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