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[min-it] / ˈmɪn ɪt /






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“I’ve been involved in many tight races in the past and understand last minute ‘needs’ come up,” he continued.

From Salon Sep. 23, 2026

La Grande Épicerie sold more than 700,000 blocks of butter in 2025—that’s three bars every minute.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

Just over three years ago, Ure left Rangers as a teenager, his last forays with the senior team being one minute against St Mirren in November 2022 and another minute against Hibs in May 2023.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2026

It has been nine months since their first bout, which ended in less than a minute because of a Pantoja injury and made Van the UFC flyweight champion.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

But I couldn’t stay there for another minute.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

England had battled to a 3-2 win over Mexico in the Azteca Stadium, where they played with 10 men for over 35 minutes after Jarell Quansah's red card.

From BBC Sep. 24, 2026

In some cases preserved in the geologic record, the two systems may have ruptured only minutes or hours apart.

From Science Daily Sep. 24, 2026

It got kicked out of the browser a few minutes later.

From Slate Sep. 23, 2026

In Venice, the film received a standing ovation that lasted more than 24 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

It’s what I thought I wanted ten minutes ago, and at first I thrill at this thought, that I could walk out of this building and never again have to return.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

Nor need we doubt that even these living invisibles are beset with parasites vastly minuter than themselves, which feed and breed on their surfaces.

From Nature and Culture by Harvey Rice

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 Isaac Disraeli

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

And some few minuter after they had exchanged their hearts' love, they also exchanged their names and addresses.

From Here and Hereafter by Barry Pain

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

Lt Col Hollington put together the programme for their whole-day visit, including all the preparations, which were executed to the minutest detail.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2022

“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

These microbes are among the minutest objects which can be studied under the microscope.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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 supported it reluctantly and my concerns were minuted," he said.

From BBC Nov. 15, 2020

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

After several of these in succession, Kitty opened a file which had been minuted down from another branch, M.B.

From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Dame Rose Macaulay

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

From BBC Jun. 2, 2012

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

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

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




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