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minimum

[min-uh-muhm] / ˈmɪn ə məm /




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Some saw Khosla’s list of requirements, including the minimum 12-hour days, as emblematic of today’s no-hire job market, where employers can flex their power—and be explicit in their demands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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

When your RMDs start next year, you’re going to have to take out roughly $34,000 as a required minimum distribution.

From MarketWatch ● 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

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

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

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

Their periods are quite regular, but there are two or more maxima and minima of light in each period, as if the variation were caused by superposed relations in some way.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd

The maximum temperature is the mean average of the daily maximums recorded across all nearest grid cells for the month or season; the minimum temperature is the mean average of the daily minimums.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The institutional share classes may also be available directly through certain brokerage platforms, and account minimums may vary depending on the relationships between the fund manager or distributor and the advisory or brokerage firm.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 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 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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