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[min-it] / ˈmɪn ɪt /






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The Hangzhou-based company announced last week it had sold one million units globally of its popular electric model, the Geely E2, averaging one car sold a minute over two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

It was definitely an interesting turn of events but I don't regret any minute of staying in the sport.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

So let’s set criminal accountability aside for a minute.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

But at the last minute the event was moved to Paris, with only scheduling reasons given for the change.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

It takes her a minute, but then it dawns on her.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

In 1970, we moved to Miramar, Fla., about 25 minutes west of Hollywood, Fla. My pop was hired there as a director of public works.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

"I had to go and get the shock on my heart," revealed the former Manchester United player, who also played 90 minutes in the losses to Morocco and Brazil.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Sexton, an Atlanta native playing 15 minutes away from his high school, delivered with eight points and three assists in the second quarter alone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

Officials “recognized that uncertainty did not mean inaction, but they agreed they would need to proceed carefully” on policy, according to the minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

It’s about ten minutes down the road from the Manor, where all the protesting is taking place.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

When we scrutinise into minuter parts, we are occasionally struck by some extraordinary similarities.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

To show this to the satisfaction of the reader, would require a minuter investigation of details than our present purpose admits; yet a few instances in point may suggest others to the memory.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones

These few remarks may here serve to characterize this people; we shall later have occasion to add many minuter traits to complete this brief sketch of the Egyptian intellect.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

The minutest crystals may show traces of crystalline outlines; undoubtedly they are of new formation and have originated in situ.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

The SNP minister said the meeting was minuted but would be subject to “special considerations that relate to intergovernmental relations”.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024

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

Later, I typed up our meetings, minuted them, just like the old days.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2015

But at this moment wish to send you minuted and repeated accounts of every thing that passes in this quarter.

From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette

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

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

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


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