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As early as the 13th minute there were signs of a rough night when Slovenia got in behind and Adam Cerin's shot had to be blocked by Jack Hendry.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
Walsh said that the Prospect Heights cafe receives roughly one order per minute during business hours.
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
From the corner of my eye, I saw that Russell watched me for another minute before he slipped out the door.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Exactly 15 minutes after the U.S. warning, Lavine, which identified itself by a former name of Disha, issued a distress call on marine radio.
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
The court heard that around 40 minutes before the attack, Palfrey had turned his mobile phone off.
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
I’ve scarcely made it home and past Mom’s regular “how was your swim” line of questioning when she texts three times in a span of two minutes.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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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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Their regular succession, and equality of force and volume, are generalised in this moulding, while the minuter varieties which distinguish one wave from another are merged in the general type.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
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 Mary Brunton
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
The minuter objects—pebbles, shells, and the smaller bunches of sea-weed—always assumed the circular form; the larger, such as detached rocks, and patches of sand, appeared as if described by irregular curves.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
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
So deep and distinct was the impression which these narrations made upon his mind, that their minutest incidents were indelibly fixed upon his memory.
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement
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
Political cabinet involves discussion of strategy - more political officials attend and it's not minuted like official government business.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 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
Barton sat down again, and appeared to reflect for a few minuted; then taking a roll of paper from his pocket, he began leisurely to peruse it.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever
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
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
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
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