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minimum

[min-uh-muhm] / ˈmɪn ə məm /




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And that phrase — “at a minimum, nearly a quarter” — needs to be understood.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The minimum age to use WhatsApp is 13 in the UK, although it is higher in some countries.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The "new generation" focused on building small illegal outposts and agricultural projects without permits from Israeli authorities -- a strategy known as "minimum people on maximum land".

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

There is plenty of fine print on the hotel perks, including minimum nights, a certain dollar amount in each half of the year and booking through the bank travel portal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

He couldn’t find a decent job, and as of three weeks ago, he makes pizzas for minimum wage.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

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

The Norwegian winters would then be warmer than now not only because of the general increase in temperature which the earth regularly experiences at sunspot minima, but because the currents would accentuate this condition.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington

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 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

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




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