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Lionel Messi’s team has won each of its knockout-round matches with goals scored after the 90th minute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
They needed a 91st minute winner to see off Portugal in the last 16 and an 88th-minute winner to get past Belgium in the quarter-finals.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
“It’s a full circle. Just trying to enjoy every minute of it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
This summer, five goals after that mark have been erased from the scoreboard, including four after the 90th minute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
A minute later, the café door opened, admitting a blast of cold air.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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"An eyewitness account of about 20 'geese' taking flight and heading toward the river just minutes before a loud bang was heard corroborates geese in the area shortly before the crash."
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Within minutes of the young man in Kasenyi sending out his note, a crowd had gathered around the four volunteers, heckling them and shouting insults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
But on an average day, just 2.6% are deemed the most life-threatening "purple calls" which warrant a blue-light response in a target of six to eight minutes.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Fears of a rate hike intensified last week, after Federal Reserve minutes revealed officials had said there was an argument for raising interest rates in June.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
IT WAS 7:55 in the evening, just a few minutes before the new curfew hour of 8:00.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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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Until this examination has worked out toward a wider collection and in toward a minuter scrutiny of details, inference is deferred.
From How We Think by Dewey, John
Early in his illness the god instructed him to record its details, and he obeyed with zest, though in after years he was not always able to record the minuter points with complete clearness.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
She also perfectly understood the slight shades in our disposition and character, and by thus tracing the springs of action to their minuter sources, advanced with more certainty to the good ends of education.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)
Even the minuter pleasures of settling a date, or classifying a title-page, were enjoyments to his incessant pen.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
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
Our changes of attitude aren’t because we are anthropomorphizing our own longing onto them; every creature, from the minutest to the massive, wants to escape from pain and death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Mayer would regularly interrogate designers about the minutest details of display and user experience.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2014
Not the minutest whisper does it send To the o'erhanging sallows: blades of grass Slowly across the chequer'd shadows pass.
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various
Changes have been made since Lord Mandelson's sacking, Sir Chris added, "so that we effectively replicate what would normally happen in a panel interview... where there is a minuted conversation with the candidate".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
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 Scott, Ernest
He writes by hand, minuting correspondence he has seen with a letter "B" followed by the Roman numeral "XVI".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2012
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 Roby, John
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 Lowell, James Russell
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 Dickens, Charles
I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
From Speeches: Literary and Social by Dickens, Charles
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