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minute

[min-it] / ˈmɪn ɪt /






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“I’ve been in the restaurant for 17 years, where I’ve worked five or six days a week — 18-hour days every day — and I’ve loved every minute of it,” Ghazalian said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

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

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

France had never trailed in the tournament, but it fell behind in this one on Mikel Oyarzabal’s successful penalty shot in the 22nd minute.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

They needed a 91st minute winner to see off Portugal in the last 16 and an 88th-minute winner to get past Belgium in the quarter-finals.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Last minute, but can I run Saturday’s game?

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

"The attention span as well, it's hard for people not to stare at their phone every five minutes."

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Landis also hands off what she calls “repetitive play,” reading the same book five times or watching her toddler open and close a door for 45 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Serve either spritz—or both, each takes five minutes to make—with olives, an antipasti plate or, if you’d rather order in, a couple of pizzas.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

The videos range from three to 20 minutes long.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

And then, finally, a few minutes more, the pale stone of switchboard headquarters.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

Very irregularly placed minuter filaments are sometimes seen branching from the main trunk, like boughs from the principal stem.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose

But Chatham wanted it quite as much as he; and it was deemed invidious to measure so accomplished a man, and so sworn a friend of peace and good order, by the minuter rules.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

Wanting judgment, and the tact of good sense, these detailers have no power of selection from their stores, to make one prominent fact represent the hundred minuter ones that may follow it.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

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 Schlegel, Friedrich

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

“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

Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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

Heath's express, and informed you that we had from every official and private quarter minuted accounts of the enemy's coming in great force to attack this island.

From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

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

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

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




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