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Ice typically builds up throughout the long, dark winter, reaching its greatest extent in March before retreating during the warmer months to a September minimum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Lawyers for the Alexanders argued that a sentence of 15 years, the mandatory minimum required by law, in prison was sufficient.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The official minimum rates of pay rose for 2.7 million workers on 1 April.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Three days of contact was the minimum required for a bleached coral to begin to recover, and five ensured full recovery.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

I suspect the pay was just a bit over minimum wage, and I didn’t get an allowance.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

Based on nine years' nearest sunspot minima and nine years' nearest sunspot maxima in the three sunspot cycles from 1888 to 1918.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington

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

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

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 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

White men comprised 78 percent of the arrests for this offense in 1990 when new mandatory minimums governing drunk driving were being adopted.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander