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Meanwhile Sydney Leroux, 35, who has played one minute the past two seasons as she deals with mental health issues, is signed through 2027.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
United beat them 4-0 and Carrick had used all five substitutes by the 72nd minute.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’s a version of the age-old promotional party that replaces passed appetizers and executive remarks with dim lights and high beats per minute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“I had to take a minute to take that in, and I thought, ‘I’d be honored.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
We’re quiet for a minute, and Avery gulps down the rest of her juice.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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For a few crucial minutes every week, Harvard’s football team steps into a practice laboratory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Then suddenly, when he took a look at the building a few minutes later, it was empty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Danijel Sturm's chance that should have made it 2-1 three minutes later came on the back of Ben Gannon-Doak staying miles up the pitch oblivious to Sturm's danger.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Sean Hannity cut into his show on Thursday and aired 36 uninterrupted minutes from Oklahoma.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026
If I skip brushing my hair and finding anything to eat—not difficult, as my stomach feels as though it would reject food anyway—I might be only a few minutes late to work.
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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Until this examination has worked out toward a wider collection and in toward a minuter scrutiny of details, inference is deferred.
From How We Think by John Dewey
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
When living and young the protoplasm extends into these and by minuter perforations connects across them.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
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
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
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 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
Heath's express, and informed you that we had from every official and private quarter minuted accounts of the enemy's coming in great force to attack this island.
From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
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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