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The good news is that you’re planning ahead, rather than making these decisions at the last minute.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
It’s always the most profound experience because you only get one minute and it’s really weird how it centers in you when you know you have a minute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Niewiadoma-Phinney began the 146.8km ride from La Voulte-sur-Rhone third in the general classification, one minute and 17 seconds behind race leader Marlen Reusser, with Demi Vollering second.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“What I liked about it was this particular pitch that holds strength and vulnerability in it, which I think is very much where Billy lives at all times, from minute to minute,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
It seemed as if my eyes were closed for only a minute, even though it was dark when I opened them and I lay in the straw of Anna’s bed, shivering.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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The Sparks outscored Golden State 31-20 overall in the fourth to get back within four with less than four minutes to play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The foul was upgraded to a flagrant two foul after review and Carrington was automatically ejected from the match after scoring eight points in four minutes from the bench.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
"CAR is the cortisol rise that all people experience in the morning, peaking around 30 minutes after they wake up," Cservenka said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
I spent 10 hair-pulling minutes just figuring out how to change the Cirqa’s wearing location from “wrist” to “arm.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Then I switch off the light and I’m asleep within minutes.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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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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Hence for the minuter study of cloud forms a more elaborate scheme is still needed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
I would have returned to the capital, to attempt tracing her by minuter enquiry; but I was deterred by poverty, and the fear of personal discovery.
From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
But probably he means one of the minuter species.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry
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
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
“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 trees and shrubbery, even to their minutest branches, are all perfectly encased in this transparent drapery.
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
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
I had to "stand aside" and have my objection minuted in the face of a sense of the meeting that it was proper to seek such funds.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2018
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
Mr. Stephenson himself drove the engine, and Captain Scoresby, the circumpolar navigator, stood beside him on the foot-plate, and minuted the speed of the train.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
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 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
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
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