minima

variants or minimums
plural of minimum

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • Not as shadows lurking in code prompt chains.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Adams drove the route through the warehouse-y section of Albuquerque that had been chosen for Scene 46, and saw that the way the shadows hit the car would inevitably create a shadow of the camera and of any lighting equipment on Seehorn’s face.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The amount of space between garden soil particles is so minuscule that container plants struggle to send their roots into it and extract nutrients from it.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Its particles contain a uranium kernel wrapped in three layers of carbon and ceramic materials.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Broncos put to bed one of the last long losing streaks on their current ledger against the Raiders.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Chris Kreider scored twice and Cutter Gauthier and Carlsson each had a goal and an assist to extend their point streaks to eight games for the Ducks.
    Oc Register, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In a separate process, researchers are seen dropping lithium granules, the size of sand grains, into the plasma.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of that comes from the chicken bouillon granules.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Carrots' pigments can help give you a healthy glow and protect against harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays.
    Barbie Cervoni, Verywell Health, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Japanese maples do best when sheltered from wind and the hottest rays of the afternoon sun.
    Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In the western part of the state, Radford, Montgomery, Roanoke City, Martinsville and Danville, Lynchburg and Lexington voted for Spanberger, blue dots in a sea of red.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In the below interview, Lockhart dives further into differentiating the stories, connecting the dots with very specific references to both books set on Beechwood Island, and where the hope lies in her newest novel, now out in bookstores.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • For the monks or clerics, it is presented as a material substance, carried like a sack of gold on the demon’s back; the metaphors used are monetary or economic, as though the monks owe ordered syllables to God instead of the monetary tithe their vows of poverty render unnecessary.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Their brains had a smaller N1 response when inner and outer syllables matched (the inner SIS effect).
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The oxygen and nitrogen molecules also emit ultraviolet light, which can only be detected by special cameras on satellites.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our own, thanks to the observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Minima.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minima. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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