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[min-uh-muhm] / ˈmɪn ə məm /




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Florida law will raise the minimum wage for all non-tipped employees to $15 later this year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Existing forecasting methods generally provide less advance notice because scientists must wait until the Sun reaches solar minimum, the quietest part of its cycle.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

Storage tanks need a minimum amount of oil just to keep their pumps working; the industry calls it “tank bottoms.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

But a restive workforce is at minimum a significant distraction for Mark Zuckerberg.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

What follows is a growing mumble, two voices starting polite, quiet, like when a lady buys stamps at the post office and gives the minimum amount of respect required to the teller.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

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

At 4 A.M. it is then at one of its minima, and rises till 10 o’clock.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

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

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

White men comprised 78 percent of the arrests for this offense in 1990 when new mandatory minimums governing drunk driving were being adopted.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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