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Dame Rachel called for a minimum standard for children's services, and an emergency fund for improvements where needed.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The Sierra Canyon High alumnus might go from veteran minimum contract to first-day starter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Tether agreed to pay Vincer’s company $415,000 a month, in six-month installments, for a minimum of two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Ice typically builds up throughout the long, dark winter, reaching its greatest extent in March before retreating during the warmer months to a September minimum.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
No ribbon falsified her blameless and implacable headgear; on her woolen head there was only the barest minimum of oil.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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In momentum space, free electrons are found in the local minima and maxima of the energy landscape, namely at points where the conduction and valence bands meet.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
"We found that even when bulk pyrite sulfur isotopes changed a lot between glacials and interglacials, the minima of our single grain pyrite distributions remained broadly constant," Bryant said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 24, 2023
Our home star goes through periods called grand minima when there are few to no sunspots.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023
She was able to get photos of the Perdita minima but not the hard-to-spot burrows she hoped to also find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
And ordinarily the maxima and minima of each month and, indeed, of each week are widely apart.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
The transfer came with broader changes to an existing credit agreement, including revising minimum liquidity requirements and removing certain financial metric minimums, according to the company’s latest quarterly filing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
However, loans from credit unions can be harder to qualify for as they might require higher credit-score minimums, bigger cash reserves or stricter debt-to-income limits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But they are based on 2025 stress capital buffers, or SCBs, which refer to the capital lenders must hold above required regulatory minimums.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The organisation said their documented figures should be seen as "absolute minimums", as getting information on deaths was severely limited by difficulty accessing sites, government-imposed internet blackouts and political repression.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
White men comprised 78 percent of the arrests for this offense in 1990 when new mandatory minimums governing drunk driving were being adopted.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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