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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
Kirsty Tullett-Jones, director of marketing and communications for Discover Leicester Square, said it was "about time we added a rom com statue to the line-up".
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
“Crypto dot com Arena? Staples Center is so stapled to my brain that I can’t call it anything else.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
Whenever I heard a car coming, I steered my bike smack into the cornfield and let the com silks tickle me while I waited for it to pass.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
"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
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
Those are people who’d already cleared the COM step, meaning they were authentic allies.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
Once COM approval is in hand, applicants then must apply to Homeland Security’s citizenship agency, sending a new set of forms.
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
First, the Act adopts the guaranteed issue and com- munity rating requirements.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 25, 2015
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
It is a smiling com- bination, and it makes me happy.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
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
Parmen and the english Com. dedicated to M. Herlakinden. dl Psalm.
From An Exposition of the Last Psalme by Boys, Iohn
Com. in Foreign Languages, No. 7, Tokio, 1902, pp. 27-32.
From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles
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
This is especially true if AI is the suffix - the bit after the dot, such as .com or .co.uk.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023
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
I do a search, and it’s available—www.germmagazine .com.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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