minutes

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Just five minutes before the final, a tearful Wawrinka was shaking with nerves in the locker room, and he declared he was "completely empty" after the gruelling showpiece.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

In a breezy, sun-soaked 90 minutes, Romvari excavates a lifetime of knotted, intergenerational trauma — a phrase that almost feels too heavy and too burdened by cryptic implications, given how this movie explores it.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

“We’re already seeing some tasks that used to take hours now take minutes and soon we won’t need to be in the loop on some tasks at all,” Bosworth wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

But wait, you might object, the so-called reasoning models don’t just sit around doing nothing—they think for minutes, sometimes hours, on end!

From Slate • May 25, 2026

In those few minutes, the sun had gone down, and over at Picnic, cars would be peeling out.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith