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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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“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
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
And Jesus seand the pepile, went up into an hill: and quhen he was set, his discipilis com to him:
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023
He could tell things apart that looked exactly alike to Marly—at least for a while—like Dutchman’s-breeches and squirrel com, and Solomon’s seal and twisted-stalk with their tiny bells, and violets!
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
"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
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
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
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
“Goodman Whittlesley, will you repeat your com. plaint for this assembly?”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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
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
See, also, Christian's note on Blackstone's Com. iv. p.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel
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
The adverbs, more and most, less and least, when placed before the adjective, have the same effect; as, Pos. wise, Com. more wise, Sup. most wise; Pos. wise, Com. less wise, Sup. least wise.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel
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
According to militarymachine.com, each F/A-18 Hornet costs more than $34 million, and they cost $6.5 million a year to operate, statista .com has reported, citing General Accounting Office data.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
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
As Venture Beat points out, Symbolics.com planted its flag in the ground a year before HP and IBM and two years before Apple decided to take the .com plunge for themselves.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2021
Some of them, like Match.com, eHarmony .com, and Yahoo!
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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