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Just look at this past weekend, where multiple top-10 teams fell, including No. 1 Georgia and No. 2 Notre Dame, the latter of which lost a 59 minute, 59 second game to BYU.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
To this end he broke the hour down into two minute blocks with 30 seconds of rest in between.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
"Within 30 seconds to a minute, they saw no fire, and then there was a fire on top of them," Rutland said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
“Baseball was my life, and I owe it everything. But there’s something about tennis. When I was seven, I’d watch it on TV and enjoy every minute of it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
It would take us a minute to fall back into our friendship, but then we’d once again be the dynamic duo.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Although Hermès operates a 6,000-square-foot, downtown Chicago location just 35 minutes away, executives realized that it largely drew out-of-state visitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The first practice session was called off after just nine minutes of running when Carlos Sainz's Ferrari hit a loose manhole cover, badly damaging his car.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Palmer doesn’t appear until the last 15 minutes, but her creepy performance is indelible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Located about 30 minutes outside of Nashville, the retreat offers a fishing lake, one-bedroom cottage, and large barn for storage or entertaining.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
We’d choose a cozy spot—in the living room or out on the deck if the weather was warm—and all four of us would read quietly for thirty minutes.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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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Wanting judgment, and the tact of good sense, these detailers have no power of selection from their stores, to make one prominent fact represent the hundred minuter ones that may follow it.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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
A minuter treatment will be found in a more appropriate connection in a following chapter.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
Early in his illness the god instructed him to record its details, and he obeyed with zest, though in after years he was not always able to record the minuter points with complete clearness.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
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
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
It is so delicate that the minutest irregularities in the air surrounding the lens can be rendered distinctly visible, as I shall show by an example.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
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
Lentils might cook in about 30 minuted, but nothing else does.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016
Later, I typed up our meetings, minuted them, just like the old days.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2015
The particulars are minuted in my journal, but I shall not trouble the publick with them.
From James Boswell Famous Scots Series by W. Keith (William Keith) Leask
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
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
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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