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Recent Examples of minim
Hartford Courant, courant.com, 30 Sep. 2017
Related:
Here are some tricks from the CDC for de-ticking yourself:
• Put your clothes in the dryer on high heat for a minim of six minutes.
—Valerie Lego, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2017
Noun
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
—Hartford Courant, courant.com, 30 Sep. 2017
Related:
Here are some tricks from the CDC for de-ticking yourself:
• Put your clothes in the dryer on high heat for a minim of six minutes.
—Valerie Lego, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for minim
Adjective
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The next, a multi-course tasting menu featuring teriyaki king oyster mushrooms and springbok carpaccio with wasabi aioli and micro radish.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Mar. 2026
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Microhistory was really a point of departure in thinking about how micro events, or things that are very small in scale, can really prompt other things.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Their secrets, grudges, and desires haven’ changes one iota.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
9 Mar. 2026
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But as columnist Michael Cunningham pointed out earlier this week, there’s more than an iota of intrigue here.—
Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Interestingly, these tiny wonders can detect a temperature spike in 100 nanoseconds.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Mar. 2026
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Two tiny humanoid robots that can play soccer stand in a glass case, one blinking and gesturing at visitors and the other partially disassembled to reveal the engineering inside.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Whereas a caddie jots down notes in a yardage book, Morse keeps observations on his phone and refers to them year after year.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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The hefty notepad features 65 warm-white, lined pages that are perfectly spaced to write grocery lists, jot reminders, and more.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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With no functional magnetosphere, Mars’ surface radiation is nearly as intense as in deep space, and the paper-thin atmosphere provides little protection from even minuscule meteorites.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
19 Feb. 2026
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Okawara sculpted Beyoncé's nails into a long almond shape with a neutral base color, then detailed each nail with its own minuscule design.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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That changed a bit on a sunny Saturday in San Francisco, the contest assuming a smidgen of campaign heat — chanting crowds, sign-waving supporters, call-and-response from the audience — as the state party held its annual convention in this bluest of cities.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2026
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That changed a bit on a sunny Saturday in San Francisco, the contest assuming a smidgen of campaign heat — chanting crowds, sign-waving supporters, call-and-response from the audience — as the state party held its annual convention in this bluest of cities.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Far from merely giving orders, directors are participants in a social reality in which the most important results aren’t the naked-eye ones of deeds achieved but the magic infinitesimal moments that expand into big-screen spectacles.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
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There was hugely more of it and less of me, rendered infinitesimal in the presence of this immensity.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There’s no hard and fast rule for how this trifle has to be layered.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
2 Mar. 2026
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Treaties were trifles compared to armies and bullets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Minim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minim. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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