minimum
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“At a minimum could be used to leapfrog golf carts in the Villages.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
As a result, Antarctic sea ice generally reaches its largest extent in September before shrinking to its annual minimum in February.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
The minimum wage for 16 and 17-year-olds has also risen to £8 an hour.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
It was unclear whether the strike would halt production, but a union representing mine operators warned that its members would stop work if minimum safety conditions were not met.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
They returned to the fair almost daily, two weeks being widely considered the minimum needed to cover it adequately.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
In momentum space, free electrons are found in the local minima and maxima of the energy landscape, namely at points where the conduction and valence bands meet.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 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
Mayer also applies the theory to the explanation of the powers of the cochlea as an analyser, by supposing that with a compound tone these are at maxima and minima of stimulation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
The maximum temperature is the mean average of the daily maximums recorded across all nearest grid cells for the month or season; the minimum temperature is the mean average of the daily minimums.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
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 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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