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It’s a simple idea, each clip lasting just a minute or two, preceded by information about the victim and where and how the incident took place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Within about a minute, the curvature of the cornea shifted to match the shape of the platinum lens.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Things get considerably more complex when, at the last minute, Lilac becomes one of the headliners at a book festival Sophie is working and briefly befriends her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Research shows that every one minute delay in receiving a transfusion increases mortality rates by 2%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
I ducked out of sight, waited a minute, then looked again.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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There will be about a dozen rooms to explore, says Shalhoub, each designed for guests to spend around five minutes in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Sarries were already 14-0 up but the next 13 minutes after Hartley's injury saw the hosts reduce the deficit to 14-12.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The process can take around 10 minutes and frees her time for other tasks, she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Now, new research suggests that some neutron star mergers may also produce X-ray flashes that remain visible for several minutes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
After a couple minutes I said, “What’s the prettiest thing you ever seen?”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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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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The minuter verbal alterations are numerous, but many of them are only corrections of errors of the press.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
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 Fanny Burney
I began to learn things out of me; to see still stranger, and minuter differences.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
We are prepared for even minuter detail; the paganism will be Nat-worship; the Indian creed Buddhism: the alphabet also, where the language is written, will be Indian also.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
During morning news briefings, journalists quiz Sheinbaum about the minutest details of her latest chats with Trump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
It’s as if he had antennae that could feel the minutest vibrations across the political world.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
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
As a matter of fact, every minutest detail of cathedral construction and ornamentation shared in this artistic triumph.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
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 fact is thus minuted in the Council's Books under date Dec.
From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson
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 John Roby
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
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
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