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[min-it] / ˈmɪn ɪt /






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The actor starts his day with an early run and a six-and-a-half minute egg.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

"He fitted everything into it, wouldn't waste a minute," she says.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Instead of the hours it traditionally took, "you can run a global weather forecast for multiple days -- the whole globe -- in a minute or so", he said.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

Cubarsi played every single minute for Spain as they emulated their 2010 World Cup success in South Africa.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

But I couldn’t stay there for another minute.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Cameron Brink scored five points over 19 minutes in her fourth game back from an ankle injury suffered on June 15 that sidelined the Sparks forward for a month.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

The 25-year-old had been managing a back issue for several weeks and carried the problem into the World Cup but was forced off after 30 minutes of France's semi-final loss to Spain.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

And on Saturday in London, he ran a mile in an unprecedented 3 minutes and 42.66 seconds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Uncover the skillet, increase the heat to medium-high and continue to cook for an additional four minutes, until the liquid reduces to a glaze.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

“I don’t know, Dad. It’s all rough. I spend, like, ten minutes on each one.”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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

Down he flew Instant, and with him Cherry too; And fluttering after, not a few Of the minuter feathered race Filled with their warbling all the place.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

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

Their regular succession, and equality of force and volume, are generalised in this moulding, while the minuter varieties which distinguish one wave from another are merged in the general type.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

But probably he means one of the minuter species.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

During morning news briefings, journalists quiz Sheinbaum about the minutest details of her latest chats with Trump.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2026

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

As a matter of fact, every minutest detail of cathedral construction and ornamentation shared in this artistic triumph.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he hoped the ministerial officials would look into this, adding: "I would expect that government meetings that take place with people around would always be minuted."

From BBC Nov. 17, 2021

Lentils might cook in about 30 minuted, but nothing else does.

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2016

Later, I typed up our meetings, minuted them, just like the old days.

From The Guardian Aug. 1, 2015

Boards sat upon them, secretaries minuted upon them, commissioners gabbled about them, clerks registered, entered, checked, and ticked them off, and they melted away.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles

He writes by hand, minuting correspondence he has seen with a letter "B" followed by the Roman numeral "XVI".

From BBC Jun. 2, 2012

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

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

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




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