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The pants, made from stiffer denim, proved to be slightly easier, and the robot finished the task in a little over a minute.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
If everything feels fake, maybe we’re better off getting outside and experiencing something real for a minute.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
At nearly three hours long, “You Can See Everything” won’t bore you for a minute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Meanwhile, human-powered NFL teams are still trying to recall basic facts, like how many seconds are in a minute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Last minute, but can I run Saturday’s game?
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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When you break it down to minutes per goal, Dzeko is level at the top with Solskjaer - scoring on average every 83 minutes.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Her first briefing on Tuesday lasted only 14 minutes as she took questions from just three reporters at Breitbart, Fox News and the Daily Mail, appearing flustered and disorganized.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Her debut performance on Tuesday lasted barely 15 minutes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Traditionally, examining these relationships requires several minutes of brain imaging data.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
“We need to leave here in five minutes or else,” Dad says.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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
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The secret of Wordsworth's profound and peculiar love for Nature, even in her meaner and minuter forms, may lie, perhaps, here.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
He saw quickly the essential points, and soon tired of any minuter examination.”
From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting
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
But probably he means one of the minuter species.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
During morning news briefings, journalists quiz Sheinbaum about the minutest details of her latest chats with Trump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
“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
The responsibilities included many works of art, including the bust that Hill’s friends described as “so faithful a likeness, down to the minutest detail of resemblance and personality, as to be startling.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2017
Mayer would regularly interrogate designers about the minutest details of display and user experience.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2014
A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Changes have been made since Lord Mandelson's sacking, Sir Chris added, "so that we effectively replicate what would normally happen in a panel interview... where there is a minuted conversation with the candidate".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
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
I had to "stand aside" and have my objection minuted in the face of a sense of the meeting that it was proper to seek such funds.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2018
Later, I typed up our meetings, minuted them, just like the old days.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2015
This minuted account I give to your Excellency to show you that nothing on our part has been wanting for the success of the expedition.
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
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
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
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
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
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