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The Hangzhou-based company announced last week it had sold one million units globally of its popular electric model, the Geely E2, averaging one car sold a minute over two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
So let’s set criminal accountability aside for a minute.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026
But at the last minute the event was moved to Paris, with only scheduling reasons given for the change.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Joshua Zirkzee, who scored United's third in the second minute of injury time, suffered similar treatment during a game against Newcastle almost two years ago.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Clare gestured to the world around them, the prism of light deepening by the minute, the fitful winds blowing their fur in every direction.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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She sent a text, and minutes later the Nvidia CEO arrived for a whiskey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Rookie Cameron Carr earned his first rotation minutes and even started the fourth quarter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Information about those nutrients travels toward the brain, where it can produce a dopamine response that develops gradually and continues for several minutes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Twice United led, the second occasion when Sesko struck two minutes from full-time after coming on as a substitute.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
In a few minutes she was back with a tray of tea and rusk.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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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I would have returned to the capital, to attempt tracing her by minuter enquiry; but I was deterred by poverty, and the fear of personal discovery.
From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
I began to learn things out of me; to see still stranger, and minuter differences.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
Wanting judgment, and the tact of good sense, these detailers have no power of selection from their stores, to make one prominent fact represent the hundred minuter ones that may follow it.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
The secret of Wordsworth's profound and peculiar love for Nature, even in her meaner and minuter forms, may lie, perhaps, here.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
During morning news briefings, journalists quiz Sheinbaum about the minutest details of her latest chats with Trump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
Lt Col Hollington put together the programme for their whole-day visit, including all the preparations, which were executed to the minutest detail.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2022
“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
The responsibilities included many works of art, including the bust that Hill’s friends described as “so faithful a likeness, down to the minutest detail of resemblance and personality, as to be startling.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2017
The double move was made in the minutest fraction of a second.
From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
The SNP minister said the meeting was minuted but would be subject to “special considerations that relate to intergovernmental relations”.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024
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
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
Heath's express, and informed you that we had from every official and private quarter minuted accounts of the enemy's coming in great force to attack this island.
From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
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
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
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
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