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minimum

[min-uh-muhm] / ˈmɪn ə məm /




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It comes as the government announced new measures aimed at regulating the market and reviewing the minimum amounts some people have to buy.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

At a minimum, Latin American policymakers need to prepare for next generations to be smaller in a region that looks as if it will grow old before it grows rich.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The Sierra Canyon High alumnus might go from veteran minimum contract to first-day starter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The most extreme conditions occurred in 2023, when Antarctica recorded both its lowest summer minimum and its lowest winter maximum since satellite observations began.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

“The bare minimum, for my children,” she’d declare under her breath, all the livelong day.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The researchers are now planning a metagenomic study that extends the time series to cover periods of even more intense sea ice minima.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 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

The nodes are never clearly defined, but they are simply maxima and minima of potentials along the bar.

From The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

He thinks it’s likely to become more difficult to extract the remaining oil in the reserve as the market gets closer to the minimums.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 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

The court then issued a related ruling in Rutherford that prisoners could not receive a reduction in sentence based on mandatory minimums that Congress had reduced after their conviction.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

The weather report was routine—even boring—with details about air pressure, wind speeds, and temperature maximums and minimums.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow


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