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minimum

[min-uh-muhm] / ˈmɪn ə məm /




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Anthropic estimates it has a minimum of $417 billion in future payments, mainly owed for computing and infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Building practical, large quantum computers will require scientists to control many qubits simultaneously while keeping errors to a minimum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

However, the sector's code already gives drivers a minimum consideration period of five minutes, so this does not appear to be new.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

He also conducts what he calls a “self-audit” to rid himself of acronyms such as RMD, which stands for required minimum distribution, and QCD for qualified charitable distribution.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The exposition’s union carpenters, aware of their great value in this final phase of construction, seized the moment and walked off the job, demanding a minimum union wage and other long-sought concessions.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

The elementary parts of existence are the minima, or monads, which are at once material and mental.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

Broadway actors earn a minimum of $2,717 a week, while West End minimums vary between the equivalent of $1,000 and $1,200.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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

You can do this by designating a child as an authorized user, which is a person added to a credit-card account by the primary cardholder, although some issuers have age minimums as low as 13.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 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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