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More than a century later, scientists will watch a total solar eclipse lasting a minute and 40 seconds appear across a swathe of northern Spain next week.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
I just know that the minute it gets out in the world, people will want more and more and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
He continued: “He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter.”
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
In the 40th minute, he floated a ball across to Jeremie Frimpong, who cut it back to Wirtz and the German did the rest.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
He changes his mind and his orders from minute to minute.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Mobile internet speeds will be slowed for 30 minutes during air raid drills in central and northern regions, as the government seeks to expose ordinary people to communications disruptions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The building where the body was found is about 20 minutes away from where Ross has been staying.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The new test extended the operating time to more than five minutes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Every few minutes, I peeled it from my skin and transferred it to the other side, where it promptly attached itself again.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Thirty minutes haven’t passed yet but my father nonetheless rises abruptly.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
He saw quickly the essential points, and soon tired of any minuter examination.”
From Italy, the Magic Land by Whiting, Lilian
At Charlotte's next visit, I obliged her to describe her brother; and I had guessed so well, that she only improved my picture, by adding some minuter strokes to the likeness.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
The spine of the back has not either the minuter prominences or the general inflexions which favor the action of the extensor muscles, a circumstance which is opposed to standing perpendicularly during the first months.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander
During morning news briefings, journalists quiz Sheinbaum about the minutest details of her latest chats with Trump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
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
“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
It must be suited to its idiosyncrasy, even in the minutest points, or it will crack and fall.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 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
Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he hoped the ministerial officials would look into this, adding: "I would expect that government meetings that take place with people around would always be minuted."
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2021
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 incidents of each day are minuted down in a dry, unambitious style, bearing the clear impress of truth.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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
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
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
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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