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minimum

[min-uh-muhm] / ˈmɪn ə məm /




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You have many sources of income during those pre-Social Security years, prior to when your required minimum distributions kick in when you hit your 70s.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Foreign farmworkers, he said, routinely worked seven days a week, skipped lunch breaks to maximise piece-rate earnings and were often paid below the national minimum wage.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

South Korea is accelerating the implementation of a higher minimum cash deposit requirement for investing in leveraged exchange-traded funds, as authorities intensify efforts to curb extreme volatility in the world’s best-performing stock market this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Contract terms were not immediately disclosed, although it has been widely reported that James would accept the $3.9 million veterans’ minimum exception.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

“I think that’s, like, bare minimum fetus achievement.”

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

The researchers are now planning a metagenomic study that extends the time series to cover periods of even more intense sea ice minima.

From Science Daily Feb. 20, 2024

"We found that even when bulk pyrite sulfur isotopes changed a lot between glacials and interglacials, the minima of our single grain pyrite distributions remained broadly constant," Bryant said.

From Science Daily Nov. 24, 2023

Our home star goes through periods called grand minima when there are few to no sunspots.

From Scientific American Oct. 19, 2023

She was able to get photos of the Perdita minima but not the hard-to-spot burrows she hoped to also find.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2022

In fact it is almost impossible to prove that it may not be an Algol star with a long period between the minima.

From A Plan for Securing Observations of the Variable Stars by Pickering, E. C.

But they are based on 2025 stress capital buffers, or SCBs, which refer to the capital lenders must hold above required regulatory minimums.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

The organisation said their documented figures should be seen as "absolute minimums", as getting information on deaths was severely limited by difficulty accessing sites, government-imposed internet blackouts and political repression.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

The court then issued a related ruling in Rutherford that prisoners could not receive a reduction in sentence based on mandatory minimums that Congress had reduced after their conviction.

From Slate Jun. 2, 2026

Custodians, most notably Fidelity Investments, made the strategy accessible by lowering the investment minimums.

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

The weather report was routine—even boring—with details about air pressure, wind speeds, and temperature maximums and minimums.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow




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