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minute

[min-it] / ˈmɪn ɪt /






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Moloney-MacDonald cost her side an early try in the defeat by Canada when, after doing superbly to pick Jess Breach's pass off her toes, she spilled the ball over the line in the sixth minute.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The disruption lasted about a minute in total, during which the person, who could not be heard well over the livestream, continued shouting.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Punter Ethan Evans kicked an extra point that put the Rams ahead, 17-15, with less than a minute remaining before the Cardinals kicked a winning field goal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

“That should only take a minute and he’s on his way. We don’t need to pretend we give a shit about each other.”

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

He gets super excited and starts talking a mile a minute about how his school’s sole focus will be on making classical music more accessible to kids who can’t afford lessons.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Each exercise lasted 30 seconds, followed by 30 seconds of rest, bringing the complete routine to four minutes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

The odds are not lost on Nixon, who campaigned last week in Monticello, on the Georgia-Florida border, about 45 minutes outside of Tallahassee.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

Within minutes, all the school's 130 children were carrying on with their classes underground.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The FedEx driver left the vehicle, which was parked near PSA’s shipping and receiving address at 1610 E. St. Andrew Place, for an hour to 90 minutes, police said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

In a few minutes she was back with a tray of tea and rusk.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

Until this examination has worked out toward a wider collection and in toward a minuter scrutiny of details, inference is deferred.

From How We Think by John Dewey

Early in his illness the god instructed him to record its details, and he obeyed with zest, though in after years he was not always able to record the minuter points with complete clearness.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

Very irregularly placed minuter filaments are sometimes seen branching from the main trunk, like boughs from the principal stem.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock

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 John Ruskin

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

“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

I shall never forget the emotion we felt that evening, and I still have the minutest incidents of the strange occurrence stamped on my memory.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

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

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016

The newly minuted “I Dough, I Dough” ice cream has a fitting new label and updated packaging showcasing two cows wearing top hats with their tales intertwined to show solidarity and unity.

From MSNBC ● Jun. 27, 2015

Heath's express, and informed you that we had from every official and private quarter minuted accounts of the enemy's coming in great force to attack this island.

From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette

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

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2012

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 Charles Dickens

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 John Roby

I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject. 

From Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens

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 James Russell Lowell


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