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minute

[min-it] / ˈmɪn ɪt /






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Feliciano, one minute later: “The impossible becomes possible when somebody does it. So let’s do it.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

He lofted a finish well wide in the 77th minute with his weaker right foot when one-on-one with Sanchez.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Almost produced an equaliser in the 73rd minute from range.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Raman tried until the last minute to get the county to remain in LAHSA.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

One of those curious, amused expressions crossed his face, but he accepted them without comment, and returned a minute later with both our cups wearing wool.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

To prevent overuse, it automatically shuts off after 20 minutes.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

"I've only been in for about two minutes, but even that was enough for all my sweat to dry up."

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

Unfortunately, the beginning of Twin Peaks’ set at 4:30 p.m. was plagued by technical issues, highlighted by an extensive sound check that leaked into the first 10 minutes of their allotted time on stage.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

It took two goals in the final 10 minutes, including one in stoppage time, for his new team to manage a 2-1 victory over Bournemouth.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

It could appear out of nowhere and last a few seconds or a few minutes.

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

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 Alexander Walker

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

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

She also perfectly understood the slight shades in our disposition and character, and by thus tracing the springs of action to their minuter sources, advanced with more certainty to the good ends of education.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney

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

If, as was growing every moment plainer, the prophecy of the farmer was to be fulfilled to the minutest detail, what was to be gained by struggling?

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield

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

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

The meeting next voted to invite any citizen to give information of the massacre of the preceding evening, "that the same might be minuted by the town-clerk"; whereupon several persons related details of the tragedy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various

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

From BBC Jun. 2, 2012

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

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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