dot
noun
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
dots
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present tense formof dot (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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If so, the Saguaro could offer an important link between the large population of little red dots Webb sees at high redshift and the galaxies that populate the more recent universe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
I have scattergrams — charts showing no reliable pattern — of every major valuation metric against one-year forward returns, and the dots are all over the map.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
According to Ms. Hazrat, Aristophanes’ dots were “the first nonalphabetical marks devoted to unlocking sentence structure and therefore enabling the performance of text.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Since history's most powerful telescope went online in 2022, it has been spotting many extremely bright cosmic objects dubbed "little red dots" in the early universe that have baffled scientists.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
He’d used a drawing compass to outline them, so they looked more like happy polka dots than like eggs—but they were perfect if you asked me.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
