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Few performers could make your blood run cold one minute and have you laughing the next.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
England trailed to Helmut Haller's early opener yet then looked to have won it through goals from Hurst and Martin Peters - only for Wolfgang Weber to level in the 89th minute.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
But unbeaten Argentina hasn’t made things easy, with its winning goals in the four knockout-round games coming in the 92nd minute or later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
“It’s a full circle. Just trying to enjoy every minute of it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The most unlucky/lucky moment in the life of Phineas Gage is only a minute or two away.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Tuchel explained his pain at the semi-final defeat, which came after Argentina scored in the 85th and 92nd minutes.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Asked about how he viewed the last 35 minutes of the game having had time to reflect, Tuchel said he felt "the same way - that we were too passive".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Landis also hands off what she calls “repetitive play,” reading the same book five times or watching her toddler open and close a door for 45 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Serve either spritz—or both, each takes five minutes to make—with olives, an antipasti plate or, if you’d rather order in, a couple of pizzas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Fifteen minutes to get home and celebrate E and family and friends and tribal community and food made with love!
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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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 Disraeli, Isaac
We may now examine the exchange “futures” in minuter detail.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
Human beings are, however, not merely organisms: they are the home and the habitat of minuter organisms.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
And some few minuter after they had exchanged their hearts' love, they also exchanged their names and addresses.
From Here and Hereafter by Pain, Barry
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
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
Not the minutest whisper does it send To the o'erhanging sallows: blades of grass Slowly across the chequer'd shadows pass.
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 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
I had to "stand aside" and have my objection minuted in the face of a sense of the meeting that it was proper to seek such funds.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2018
Later, I typed up our meetings, minuted them, just like the old days.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2015
The meeting next voted to invite any citizen to give information of the massacre of the preceding evening, "that the same might be minuted by the town-clerk"; whereupon several persons related details of the tragedy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various
He writes by hand, minuting correspondence he has seen with a letter "B" followed by the Roman numeral "XVI".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2012
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
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
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
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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