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Now, you’re probably thinking, wait a minute, I can already do that at more and more airports with those new CT bag scanners and don’t have PreCheck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The UN labour agency chief will face two challengers for his job after a former Peruvian foreign minister entered the race at the last minute, the final candidate list showed Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

"How are we supposed to deal with angry and confused prisoners when we find out about the plans last minute?" he asked.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Upretti, 40, said he had less than a minute to escape when the floods struck.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Oliver gave me this curious, sideways gaze for a minute, like he was waiting to see if I’d keep the conversation going.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

He dropped the phrase “fresh start” four times in an interview that barely lasted five minutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

But she was still buzzing with adrenaline from Bikini Kill’s riotous act just minutes before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Tamang says he ran for about 20 minutes to flee the violent deluge, which followed him uphill.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Over a woozy, wavy groove that sounds like a water-damaged recording of a jazz-fusion ballad as it stretches past seven minutes, she tosses out observations about African-American history and the state of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Where ten minutes earlier I’d been burning with fever, now I was shaking with cold.

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

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

I would have returned to the capital, to attempt tracing her by minuter enquiry; but I was deterred by poverty, and the fear of personal discovery.

From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

The spine of the back has not either the minuter prominences or the general inflexions which favor the action of the extensor muscles, a circumstance which is opposed to standing perpendicularly during the first months.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

A minuter treatment will be found in a more appropriate connection in a following chapter.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith

“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

Our changes of attitude aren’t because we are anthropomorphizing our own longing onto them; every creature, from the minutest to the massive, wants to escape from pain and death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

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

Such are the salt of the earth; let the minutest crystal of that salt be willingly by us held in solution.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

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

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

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

It has happened, that all my transactions with the Indian nations, last year and this, have been clearly heard, distinctly understood, accurately minuted, by very numerous, and in many parts, very unprejudiced persons.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

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 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

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

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