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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

Management had cut hundreds of jobs while still demanding the production of 100 cars an hour, so a task that once took a minute had to be finished in 36 seconds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

If everything feels fake, maybe we’re better off getting outside and experiencing something real for a minute.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

Every minute is important, not just on stage, but in life, so I like to hug them with my words.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

We’re quiet for a minute, just sipping and chewing.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Barbabella—or another doctor—is supposed to be no more than three minutes away from the president at all times, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The excuses for the Dodgers collapse flew off the page minutes after the last out of Game 4.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Rather than sleeping through one long stretch each night, mice typically sleep in brief episodes lasting only several minutes, scattered throughout the day and night.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Every five or 15 minutes, another pager returned to the host stand, blinking and vibrating in the hands of a customer whose table was finally ready.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

After twenty minutes of demonstrations and discussion with the salesclerk, James chose a Corona 3 in a hard case.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

The Lens and Microscope.—In the examination of the minuter forms of insect life the naked eye is not sufficient, and a hand-lens, or, for more delicate work, the compound microscope will be found necessary.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley

These few remarks may here serve to characterize this people; we shall later have occasion to add many minuter traits to complete this brief sketch of the Egyptian intellect.

From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel

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 Hugh Miller

And some few minuter after they had exchanged their hearts' love, they also exchanged their names and addresses.

From Here and Hereafter by Barry Pain

On top of that, the game is continuously stopped while phases of play are checked by VAR for even the minutest of incidents.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

It’s as if he had antennae that could feel the minutest vibrations across the political world.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

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

“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

He sought perfection at once in supreme love to God, and in the minutest details of character and conduct.

From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald

Sir Chris said this process has been changed since Lord Mandelson's exit, to ensure a formal, minuted interview happens.

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

In these I had the pleasure of seeing a number of circumstances minuted down, all relating to the Slave-trade, and even drawings on the same subject.

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I by Thomas Clarkson

He writes by hand, minuting correspondence he has seen with a letter "B" followed by the Roman numeral "XVI".

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2012

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

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