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I’ve done it for years, but always in these short bursts for a minute or two on “Office Hours” or Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Then, it happened: a goal in the 50th minute by Luis Romo of the Mexican side.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
None of those was as consequential as the one he turned into the corner of Ørjan Nyland’s net in the third minute of extra-time to put England in front for good.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
After Beckham's red, England bravely hung on and even thought they had won it when Sol Campbell headed home in the 81st minute, only for it it to be ruled out for a push.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
I knew the minute Rolf stepped through the door that bad news was weighing him down.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Messi has averaged the shortest distance of all Argentina outfield players to have featured for 20-plus minutes at the tournament - covering just 8.2km per 90 minutes.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The admissions board posts public minutes on its website, but those take at least weeks to be uploaded after a meeting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
According to one study, the Gordie Howe will cut 20 minutes off the crossing time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Police scanner audio obtained by news outlets showed emergency responders arriving at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday around 8:30 p.m. for a report of chest pains; CPR was underway roughly 25 minutes later.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
You watch the film for a few minutes.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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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The secret of Wordsworth's profound and peculiar love for Nature, even in her meaner and minuter forms, may lie, perhaps, here.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
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 Miller, Hugh
But probably he means one of the minuter species.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry
These few remarks may here serve to characterize this people; we shall later have occasion to add many minuter traits to complete this brief sketch of the Egyptian intellect.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich
It’s as if he had antennae that could feel the minutest vibrations across the political world.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
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
“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
The acting, exquisite as it was through the minutest articulation of the scene, was infinitely less striking than the stillness and patience of the spectators.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
Sir Chris said this process has been changed since Lord Mandelson's exit, to ensure a formal, minuted interview happens.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
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
This minuted account I give to your Excellency to show you that nothing on our part has been wanting for the success of the expedition.
From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de
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 Roby, John
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
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
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