minimum
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It charged users a minimum of $20 a month, attracting dozens of customers and raised nearly $30 million from investors, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Japan's defence ministry declined to comment directly on Kim Yo Jong's Wednesday diatribe but said the country's defence capabilities "remain bare minimum" and "are not meant to threaten other countries".
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
He has continued this crusade, recently endorsing a $20 minimum wage and speaking out against the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
The judge sentenced the man to 14 years with a minimum of nine years and nine months to be served.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Now that the trip was delayed by a minimum of several months, the ship’s stores had to be supplemented with fresh meat.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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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
It will be noted that of the 420 cases considered, the average maxima and minima varied between $9 and $13, a much higher point than is reached by girls in the institutions.
From Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by Kneeland, George Jackson
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 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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