minimum
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Instead, the researchers observed a local minimum in the oscillation amplitude across certain temperature ranges.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
The minimum £15m fee secured in Trossard's deal to Besiktas is also viewed as a good deal inside the Emirates given the Belgian turns 32 in December.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
And in Murray, Minnesota saw a player with upside whom they could sign to a minimum contract because the Cardinals still owe him so much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The state’s $16.90 an hour minimum wage—set to rise to $17.40 in January—helps “ensure workers share in that growth,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Declaring that he would never take back the strikers, he raised the minimum wage for a police officer and set about recruiting an entire new police force.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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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
This class of functions includes all those which have a finite number of maxima and minima in a finite-interval, and some which have an infinite number.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Account minimums may vary depending on the relationships between the fund manager or distributor and the advisory or brokerage firm.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 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 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
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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