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[min-it] / ˈmɪn ɪt /






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Number of goals Argentina has scored in the knockout stage that have come after the 75th minute.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

He did it with a sizzling, right-footed goal in the 57th minute of LAFC’s 3-0 victory Friday over the Galaxy in the 27th rendition of El Tráfico and the first this year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

England trailed to Helmut Haller's early opener yet then looked to have won it through goals from Hurst and Martin Peters - only for Wolfgang Weber to level in the 89th minute.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Few performers could make your blood run cold one minute and have you laughing the next.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

Photographing anyone or anything moving is difficult because the light-sensitive plates are very slow, and a single exposure can take a fall minute.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

It is absorbed in the gut within minutes and then gets into the bloodstream.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

He took two shots in the first seven minutes, both blocked by defenders.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

When you’re swept up into the story immediately and held there for 180 minutes, it’s harder to pinpoint exactly where the film ends and your own impression of it begins.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Within four minutes the blaze had burned through the aircraft’s flight controls, leaving the pilots unable to control the jet manually.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

How had she been stuck here for thirty minutes?

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

At Charlotte's next visit, I obliged her to describe her brother; and I had guessed so well, that she only improved my picture, by adding some minuter strokes to the likeness.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

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 Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)

An apparently blended character or a prepotent character may on analysis turn out to be due to the inheritance of a certain proportion of minuter characters derived exclusively from either parent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

The minuter objects—pebbles, shells, and the smaller bunches of sea-weed—always assumed the circular form; the larger, such as detached rocks, and patches of sand, appeared as if described by irregular curves.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

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

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2026

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

Lt Col Hollington put together the programme for their whole-day visit, including all the preparations, which were executed to the minutest detail.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2022

“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

Now it is ordained that not the minutest particle of foreign property is to be injured.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.

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

With the experience of the hospital shilling in mind particular care was taken to have the agreement minuted and confirmed in writing.

From The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir

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

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

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




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