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minute

[min-it] / ˈmɪn ɪt /






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The pants, made from stiffer denim, proved to be slightly easier, and the robot finished the task in a little over a minute.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Oxford has the…wait a minute, how much did that new bridge cost?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

If everything feels fake, maybe we’re better off getting outside and experiencing something real for a minute.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

Another good sign, less than a minute later, was when Kessler got an offensive rebound and bounded back up for a dunk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

“Give me a minute with Teddy, OK? Then I’ll be right with you for our lesson. Luna, meet Grace. Grace, Luna. I think you’re the same age, actually! Both about to start ninth grade.”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

He stated his case for a roster spot with 13 points in 14 minutes Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Rather than sleeping through one long stretch each night, mice typically sleep in brief episodes lasting only several minutes, scattered throughout the day and night.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Every five or 15 minutes, another pager returned to the host stand, blinking and vibrating in the hands of a customer whose table was finally ready.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Claire Throssell missed seeing her sons by five minutes.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Thirty minutes later, a woman in a food truck found me there.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Flyers in the race signed a last minute agreement to delay the start four days, to give opportunity for minuter mechanical overhauling, stricter sifting of entrants' abilities to fly.

From Time Magazine Archive

The third is the tendency towards minuter organization and subdivision within the army.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

Detail.—The minuter features of a design or building, especially its mouldings and carving.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith

But Chatham wanted it quite as much as he; and it was deemed invidious to measure so accomplished a man, and so sworn a friend of peace and good order, by the minuter rules.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson

Their regular succession, and equality of force and volume, are generalised in this moulding, while the minuter varieties which distinguish one wave from another are merged in the general type.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin

During morning news briefings, journalists quiz Sheinbaum about the minutest details of her latest chats with Trump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

On top of that, the game is continuously stopped while phases of play are checked by VAR for even the minutest of incidents.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

It’s as if he had antennae that could feel the minutest vibrations across the political world.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

But 26 minutest later, at 2:06 a.m., he reported that the ship “had begun to take a great inclination to the right side, and there was great upheaval and screams.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

Now it is ordained that not the minutest particle of foreign property is to be injured.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

It is understood the meeting was attended by civil servants and formally minuted.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

The Kraken seized advantage about six minuted later when Vince Dunn wound up at the left point and blistered a slap shot past Dan Vladar to tie things 1-1.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

Lentils might cook in about 30 minuted, but nothing else does.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016

The newly minuted “I Dough, I Dough” ice cream has a fitting new label and updated packaging showcasing two cows wearing top hats with their tales intertwined to show solidarity and unity.

From MSNBC ● Jun. 27, 2015

In these I had the pleasure of seeing a number of circumstances minuted down, all relating to the Slave Trade, and even drawings on the same subject.

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Thomas Clarkson

He writes by hand, minuting correspondence he has seen with a letter "B" followed by the Roman numeral "XVI".

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2012

Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill,   And, minuting the long day's loss, The cedar's shadow, slow and still,   Creeps o'er its dial of gray moss.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

However, he was resolved to stick to the Great Department; and so the work of form-filling, corresponding, minuting, memorandum-making, signing, counter-signing, counter-counter-signing, referring backwards and forwards, and referring sideways, crosswise, and zig-zag, recommenced.

From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Leaving to Anthony the irksome task of minuting down the roll of time for one unlucky month, turn we to another personage with whom it is high time the reader should be acquainted.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby

I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject. 

From Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens


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