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The minimum bid for the silent auction will be $4,000, said Cade. — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, "Home & Garden Show features She Shed," 4 Sep. 2019 Starting teacher salaries in Chicago-area districts are mostly well above that minimum. — Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, "As students return for a new school year, new education-related laws hit the books," 3 Sep. 2019 Before this season, mound visits were reduced to five, and innings breaks in most games to two minutes, with commissioner Rob Manfred set to unilaterally impose a three-batter minimum on relievers in 2020. — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, "MLB's efforts to speed up play run into reality of modern game: 'It's not going to happen'," 3 Sep. 2019 Manaea faced the minimum through the first four, allowing only an infield single and then getting Gleyber Torres to ground into a double play. — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, "Manaea superb in first start since surgery, but A’s fall to Yankees," 1 Sep. 2019 That’s much less than the average $125-a-month benefit for households with seniors, but more than the $16 minimum that one in five such households get. — Laura Ungar & Trudy Lieberman / Kaiser Health News, Time, "Why America Is Failing To Feed Its Aging," 28 Aug. 2019 Many people earning wages at or near the minimum are highly skilled. — Matt Darling, Quartz at Work, "Ready to destroy a longstanding argument against raising the minimum wage?," 28 Aug. 2019 During solar minimum, more cosmic rays can reach the strong magnetic field near the sun’s surface and get mirrored, instead of being deflected prematurely by the turbulent tangle of field lines that pervades the inner solar system at other times. — Quanta Magazine, "The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined," 27 Aug. 2019 Hirano, who is eligible to return as early as Tuesday, still is not expected to miss much beyond the minimum 10 days, manager Torey Lovullo said. — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, "Arizona Diamondbacks' rotation falling short without Zack Greinke," 23 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'minimum.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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