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“The minute I turned in ‘We Love You, Bunny,’ I missed the characters and the world,” Awad reflects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Anybody could be gone in a minute, you know?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
He’s a big man, so it takes a minute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
After a minute or so he exhales, but not a normal exhale, and then I hear him say something but can’t make it out over the traffic and the rage-triggered ringing in my ears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Oliver gave me this curious, sideways gaze for a minute, like he was waiting to see if I’d keep the conversation going.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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By contrast, she said, an end-to-end autonomous defense system that’s supervised by humans can reduce that time to minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Collins stood outside for several agonizing minutes, hearing their muffled voices.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
His scoring rate has improved from one goal every 149.8 minutes at Villa to one every 96.7 minutes in Rome.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The emergency services weren't notified about the fire until 06:54, the report says, nearly 20 minutes after it first began.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
I’ve been waiting longer than I’d anticipated and I have only a few minutes before the train departs.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
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An apparently blended character or a prepotent character may on analysis turn out to be due to the inheritance of a certain proportion of minuter characters derived exclusively from either parent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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
Very irregularly placed minuter filaments are sometimes seen branching from the main trunk, like boughs from the principal stem.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock
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
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
“It is, in fact, his power of observation, his eye for the minutest detail, that sets him apart not only from most baseball writers but also from most writers, period.”
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022
The sharp-pointed one, a, is designed for the minutest forms and the larger points for large insects.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
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
The Minister of Marine minuted Jussieu's recommendation in the margin: "No choice could be happier than that of Captain Baudin,"* and so he was appointed.
From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott
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
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
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
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