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Val Moreno looks like he’s enjoying every minute while volunteering to hold the down marker at Servite High home football games as part of the Friars’ chain crew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The words are randomly chosen at the last minute for Moynihan to insert within the prepared scripts, one of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Arsenal took the lead after just 23 seconds, doubled their advantage thanks to some static City defending in the 23rd minute, and then added a third three minutes into the second half.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
"It's going to hit Kyiv in about a minute," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
SJ sized up Kathy for a minute, then pointed at the frybread with her lips.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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On Tuesday, Musiala collapsed six minutes after coming off the bench in Bayern's 4-2 friendly victory at Heidenheim.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The company aims to slash standard 30-minute fulfillment times down to just five to 10 minutes, starting in Dallas and Houston this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
In the June minutes — the first under Warsh — the Fed laid out the outlook in terms of two scenarios.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
They require only a minute each — an entire routine is just five minutes a day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
After twenty minutes of demonstrations and discussion with the salesclerk, James chose a Corona 3 in a hard case.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Flyers in the race signed a last minute agreement to delay the start four days, to give opportunity for minuter mechanical overhauling, stricter sifting of entrants' abilities to fly.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A minuter treatment will be found in a more appropriate connection in a following chapter.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
But Chatham wanted it quite as much as he; and it was deemed invidious to measure so accomplished a man, and so sworn a friend of peace and good order, by the minuter rules.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
But probably he means one of the minuter species.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
When we scrutinise into minuter parts, we are occasionally struck by some extraordinary similarities.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
During morning news briefings, journalists quiz Sheinbaum about the minutest details of her latest chats with Trump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
On top of that, the game is continuously stopped while phases of play are checked by VAR for even the minutest of incidents.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
But 26 minutest later, at 2:06 a.m., he reported that the ship “had begun to take a great inclination to the right side, and there was great upheaval and screams.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
“It is, in fact, his power of observation, his eye for the minutest detail, that sets him apart not only from most baseball writers but also from most writers, period.”
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022
"Jac, come here, and don't make such a fuss," said the calm voice of Hilda, as she emerged from her room, ready down to the minutest detail, fan, gloves, and wrap over her arm.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
The Kraken seized advantage about six minuted later when Vince Dunn wound up at the left point and blistered a slap shot past Dan Vladar to tie things 1-1.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Political cabinet involves discussion of strategy - more political officials attend and it's not minuted like official government business.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2023
Lentils might cook in about 30 minuted, but nothing else does.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016
The newly minuted “I Dough, I Dough” ice cream has a fitting new label and updated packaging showcasing two cows wearing top hats with their tales intertwined to show solidarity and unity.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 27, 2015
With the experience of the hospital shilling in mind particular care was taken to have the agreement minuted and confirmed in writing.
From The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
He writes by hand, minuting correspondence he has seen with a letter "B" followed by the Roman numeral "XVI".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2012
However, he was resolved to stick to the Great Department; and so the work of form-filling, corresponding, minuting, memorandum-making, signing, counter-signing, counter-counter-signing, referring backwards and forwards, and referring sideways, crosswise, and zig-zag, recommenced.
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Leaving to Anthony the irksome task of minuting down the roll of time for one unlucky month, turn we to another personage with whom it is high time the reader should be acquainted.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
From Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens
Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill, And, minuting the long day's loss, The cedar's shadow, slow and still, Creeps o'er its dial of gray moss.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
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