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minimal

[min-uh-muhl] / ˈmɪn ə məl /


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Part of the reason for the minimal share-price move could be that Apple is accessing Nvidia’s hardware through the cloud-computing services of Google rather than buying the chips directly.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

In a new paper in Philosophical Transactions B, we propose a neural model for minimal consciousness in insects.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

A penalty was awarded on field but the contact by Dean Henderson on Marcos Senesi was minimal and it should have been overturned.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

That additional revenue comes with minimal incremental expenses, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

By systematically depleting nearly all the nutrients from the broth, Beadle found that the mold strains could still grow on a minimal broth containing nothing more than a sugar and a vitamin called biotin.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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