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Meanwhile Sydney Leroux, 35, who has played one minute the past two seasons as she deals with mental health issues, is signed through 2027.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Prof Nazanin Derakhshan, a neuroscientist at Birkbeck, University of London, suggests focusing on six breaths per minute before presenting.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’s a version of the age-old promotional party that replaces passed appetizers and executive remarks with dim lights and high beats per minute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“I had to take a minute to take that in, and I thought, ‘I’d be honored.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’s only a ten- minute journey, and we’re there in no time.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Both of my trips home from the airport, a 15-mile trip on the freeway, took 48 minutes, double the usual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
USA international Coffey, one of their most crucial midfielders, has featured in every game but has only played 90 minutes once as Jeglertz has rotated effectively.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
During a Las Vegas Summer League game, Thiero flashed his potential with 20 points, four rebounds, four assists, three steals and two blocks with zero turnovers in 30 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Footage of the flood showed it had swallowed most of the village in just minutes.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
I don’t know how long I’ve been walking — minutes? hours? — before my bones rattle and I realize that I left my jacket behind.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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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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Until this examination has worked out toward a wider collection and in toward a minuter scrutiny of details, inference is deferred.
From How We Think by John Dewey
We are prepared for even minuter detail; the paganism will be Nat-worship; the Indian creed Buddhism: the alphabet also, where the language is written, will be Indian also.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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
We may now examine the exchange “futures” in minuter detail.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
It’s as if he had antennae that could feel the minutest vibrations across the political world.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
“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
Our changes of attitude aren’t because we are anthropomorphizing our own longing onto them; every creature, from the minutest to the massive, wants to escape from pain and death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Mayer would regularly interrogate designers about the minutest details of display and user experience.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2014
As a matter of fact, every minutest detail of cathedral construction and ornamentation shared in this artistic triumph.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The meeting where councillors selected Whitegates was also not minuted, prompting claims of a "cloak and dagger process" from protestors.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
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
I had to "stand aside" and have my objection minuted in the face of a sense of the meeting that it was proper to seek such funds.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2018
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
After several of these in succession, Kitty opened a file which had been minuted down from another branch, M.B.
From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Dame Rose Macaulay
He writes by hand, minuting correspondence he has seen with a letter "B" followed by the Roman numeral "XVI".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2012
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
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
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
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
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