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The phrase dot-com is used to refer generically to almost anything connected to business on the Internet.
The explosive growth of wealth connected to the Internet in the 1990s is often said to have created many “dot-com millionaires.”
First recorded in 1980–85; shortening of commercial ( def. ) or company ( def. )
< Latin, variant of preposition cum with
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“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
There is a lot in the Bloomstran analysis for Berkshire watchers who want to get a good grasp of the com plex company amid the leadership transition.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
The statue is the first to celebrate a rom com on Leicester Square's Scenes in the Square trail.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
We’ll see you back in your inbox tomorrow—and in the meantime, keep an eye out for our coverage of the third GOP debate on Slate dot com!
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2023
The first com stood high in the meadow, row after endless row, waiting to be plucked.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
"Then we directly compared our simulations with other laboratory experiments that produce COMs under realistic astrophysical conditions. The results showed that COM formation is possible in both the protosolar nebula environment and Jupiter's circumplanetary disk."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
According to the latest State Department data covering last summer, it took more than 300 days to win COM approval.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
Those are people who’d already cleared the COM step, meaning they were authentic allies.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
The first five steps, known as COM, or Chief of Mission, approval, are where the Afghan proves he or she actually did serve with American troops, and faces danger for having done so.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
"Why not talk to Lewis? Let's go to CAP- COM and ask her directly."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
The MSS was once thought to be cautious, stealing America’s technology secrets by debriefing Chinese scientists or hacking into com- puter systems.
From MSNBC ● Nov. 7, 2017
But during the second half of 2008, the belief in higher com- modity prices vanished.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 4, 2014
The company’s walled- garden approach brought huge numbers of new users to networked com- puting in the United States.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2013
It was received with this same sense of urgency and hands-on involvement, starting an avalanche of critique, coding, collaboration, and com- mentary.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 18, 2013
"Khaleesi," he said, "I am yours to com- - mand."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
He said he was "trying to save his own skin. Last ditch dot com. Trying to save his own bacon".
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2017
Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St. NW. 202-612-4400. embassyexperiences. com. $79-$112.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2017
Convair has also started to build a military transport model of the plane, the C-99, expects it to carry 400 com. pletely equipped infantrymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Looking at me, he said, “Shell a sack of com. Take one of the mules and go to the mill for your mother.”
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
“I’m inquiring about my sister. She was purchasing com. Did she by any chance come by here today?”
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
At The Jim Henson Com. she has served as producer of animated series "Frances" and "The Skrumps," and was the executive producer on "Sid, the Science Kid."
From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2010
But their most novel creation was the Trans-Pecos Chemical Com., which was not a company or a corporation but a "commonwealth."
From Time Magazine Archive
P. 153 discusses the rat-flea theory of dissemination of bubonic plague, summing up the evidence of various observers, including the Indian Advisory Com. and others.
From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur
You should send it to the Reviewing Com. in the U.S.A. and ask their advice.
From Arohanui: Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand by Shoghi Effendi
As to the first point: An obstruction of the highway which is temporary and partial may be justified in cases of plain, evident necessity, but not where that necessity is argumentative and supposititious: Com. vs.
From Practical Argumentation by Pattee, George K.
It also helps to donate money using a check or credit card, give only to websites with a .org rather than .com address and avoid automated messages requesting personal information, the agency added.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
On March 15, 1985, the first .com domain name was registered to a computer company out of Massachusetts named Symbolics.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2021
Why bother adding a .com to the end when you can usually get to what you’re looking for with an extra click?
From The Verge ● Oct. 1, 2021
And Ms Battman adds that when it comes to the domain name, the sweet spot is definitely to get the ".com".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2021
I do a search, and it’s available—www.germmagazine .com.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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