minimum
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They imposed a minimum sentence for offenders, but no maximum or end date, with criminals having to serve the minimum term before being considered for release by the parole board.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“You see a lot of people consuming the minimum, what they need to get by through the week,” said owner Carina Murillo, 31, as she checked out customers on a recent weekday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
For a 16-game season, the minimum was 200 and for a 17-game season, it was 207.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Europe need a minimum of 14.5 points to regain the trophy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
You met the minimum number of good deeds, so you get to avoid premature balding in your next life.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
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
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
This phenomenon recurs with such regularity that the interval between successive minima may be determined in some cases within a fraction of a second.
From A Plan for Securing Observations of the Variable Stars by E. C. Pickering
The transfer came with broader changes to an existing credit agreement, including revising minimum liquidity requirements and removing certain financial metric minimums, according to the company’s latest quarterly filing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He thinks it’s likely to become more difficult to extract the remaining oil in the reserve as the market gets closer to the minimums.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 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 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 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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