speck of dust

collocation in English

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speck
noun[C]
uk
/spek/us
/spek/
a very small mark, piece, ...
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dust
noun[U]
uk
/dʌst/us
/dʌst/
dry dirt in the form of powder that covers surfaces inside a building, or very small dry pieces of soil, sand, or ...
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(Definition ofspeckanddustfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it,speckofdust!
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It is like a fine machine which cannot work if the merestspeckofdustgets into it.
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A mere importation of £3,000,000 worth from abroad is but a fraction—aspeckofdust—in the total amount necessary for the carrying on of this country.
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Horton hears a strange noise coming from aspeckofdust, and decides there must be someone on it.
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A rational person does not typically value aspeckofdustinstrumentally; nor does a rational person typically value a plastic cup intrinsically.
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Earth is nothing but aspeckofdust, and it is insignificant.
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However, that's about as important as aspeckofdustin this pluralistic cosmos.
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Similarly, specks of dust may have an important effect.
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The big ones are hanging out there, of course, but most of that is made up of specks of dust and small meteorites.
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It is absurd to say that because there were some specks of dust in someone's eye in 1997, sticking a twig into it thereafter does not matter.
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Even small specks of dust, invisible to the naked eye, can obscure a cluster of several pixels.
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Preliminary estimations suggested at least a million microscopic specks of dust were embedded in the aerogel collector.
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