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If you lead with “quick housekeeping” and save the real ask for minute 25, you've lost the meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

"No one's replacing anybody - at the minute it's all very kind of open," Willis told Richard Osman on The Rest is Entertainment podcast.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

To avoid police raids, kids strategized, coming up with systems that would keep party and rave sites secret until the last minute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

David was the same age as his partner when he first took up tennis and has loved every minute of his time on court, now playing up to four or five times a week.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

“One minute, you’re on a date with Ell, and the next you’re over here making googly eyes at this lothario!”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Garcia sprinted towards the scales about 10 minutes after Benn and also looked at ease as he comfortably made the weight.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Staff at the site said their best delivery time so far is 39 minutes.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Shelton and Tiafoe have plenty of brilliant moments, and also one or two moments when it seems like they picked up a racket for the first time 15 minutes ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

But it may be more exhausting than thrilling to learn in the closing, apocalypse-ratcheting minutes that Na has more of his story planned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

A few minutes later, when Mutti came back in again, she found Peter and Karli sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the stove, deep in conversation.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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

Their regular succession, and equality of force and volume, are generalised in this moulding, while the minuter varieties which distinguish one wave from another are merged in the general type.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin

At Charlotte's next visit, I obliged her to describe her brother; and I had guessed so well, that she only improved my picture, by adding some minuter strokes to the likeness.

From Discipline by Mary Brunton

In addition to their minuter size they differ from the ova in their power of active movement.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett

When living and young the protoplasm extends into these and by minuter perforations connects across them.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

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

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

If, as was growing every moment plainer, the prophecy of the farmer was to be fulfilled to the minutest detail, what was to be gained by struggling?

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield

It is understood the meeting was attended by civil servants and formally minuted.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

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

Little more than a minuted had elapsed since the moment when the first peremptory order, to open in the name of the Republic, had sounded like the tocsin through the stillness of the house.

From I Will Repay by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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

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

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